Milwaukee marks 85 years of producing Milorganite fertilizer

Product was the nation’s first pelletized product made from wastewater residuals

Eighty-five years ago, Milwaukee began turning its wastewater biosolids into a lawn and garden fertilizer, call Milorganite (for MILwaukee ORGANic NITrogen), the first such pelletized fertilizer in the United States. Sales of Milorganite have now topped 9 billion pounds, according...

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