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[[Sludge Compost Facilities]] is a 2010 report was created by [[BioCycle]] and the [[North East Biosolids & Residuals Association]], [[NEBRA]], to update the list of sewage sludge (aka [[biosolids]]) composting facilities around the United States. A total of 265 sludge compost facilities were found and are listed [http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/9d/Sludge_Compost_Facilities%2C_NEBRA_report_2010.pdf '''here'''].<ref>[http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/9/9d/Sludge_Compost_Facilities%2C_NEBRA_report_2010.pdf NEBRA report: Sludge Compost Facilities], Accessed December, 2010.</ref>

In a March 2010 BioCycle article, managing editor [[Dan Sullivan]] defends the leaching of agricultural chemicals into so-called "organic compost." Based on the controversy over findings of the pesticide bifenthrin in wheatgrass grown in compost, the article details how maintaining the current "certified organic" standards in the soil and crop industry in California is "impossible."<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7471/is_201003/ai_n53504641/?tag=content;col1 CERTIFIED ORGANIC COMPOST UNDER THE GUN IN CALIFORNIA, BioCycle Magazine, March 2010] ''BioCycle'' Article Accessed April 12, 2011.</ref>