HARRISBURG, P.A. (KYW Newsradio) — Pennsylvania will now monitor and regulate food processing waste that’s used as fertilizer on farms in an effort to allow its legitimate use while also cutting down on pollution.
Chester County State Rep. Paul Friel said food processing residual waste, or FPRs, can have a use in agriculture.
“It can be something as simple as leftover produce, something simple that has probably some beneficial uses to soil, to stuff that has been processed [like] the wastewater from a kill floor with some cleaning agents in it,” he said…