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Week 5 assignment:

The biosolids article could benefit from being longer and more in depth. This would give the reader a more clear understanding of what biosolids are. This article, especially in the intro, characteristics and history sections seems one sided and bias. This bias makes biosolids come across as bad when Wikipedia articles are meant to be neural with no opinions of the writer. Putting in some sources about how they are beneficial so that readers can see both sides of the argument would make the article more beneficial for the reader.

Some sources:

Wang, H., Brown, S. L., Magesan, G. N., Slade, A. H., Quintern, M., Clinton, P. W., & Payn, T. W. (2008). Technological options for the management of biosolids. Environmental Science and Pollution Research-International, 15(4), 308-317.

Sharma, B., Sarkar, A., Singh, P., & Singh, R. P. (2017). Agricultural utilization of biosolids: A review on potential effects on soil and plant grown. Waste Management, 64, 117-132.

Tsadilas, C. D., Mitsios, I. K., & Golia, E. (2005). Influence of biosolids application on some soil physical properties. Communications in soil science and plant analysis, 36(4-6), 709-716.

March 1st Assignemnt

Currently, most biosolids are put into landfills (Wang, 2008). Using them as a fertilizer substitute can increase land use and decrease dumping. Biosolids have beneficial outcomes such as reducing landfilling and being a fertilizer substitute (Summer, 2000). Rewording the second paragraph of the introduction with benefits of biosolids will make it less bias and allow reader to form their own opinions.

In the Characteristics heading and quantities subheading, there are citations needed on some of the assumptions made such as how producing high quality biosoilds may become more complex and how some states can banned biosolids. I will do some further research to attempt to verify this information.

In the classification heading I think it would be beneficial to have one or two more countries accounted for to provide form comparisons. Looking at Canada, they use a provincial/territorial regulation system for biosolids (cwwa, 2018).

In the history heading, I think rewording of some of the sentances with more neutral language would be beneficial. This section imposes negativity on biosolids with certain phrases implying that they are not safe to use yet.

Additional information to add in where seen fit includes; how economic and environmental factors have produces the idea of biosoilds as an eco-friendly was to depose of waste (Sharma, 2017). This need comes from increasing population and therefore increasing production of complex waste (Sharma, 2017). Biosolids have a beneficial effect on the chemical composition and physicality of soil, as well as crop yields (Tsadilas, 2005).

sources:

Cwwa.ca. (2018). CWWA - FAQ - Biosolids. [online] Available at: http://www.cwwa.ca/faqbiosolids_e.asp [Accessed 28 Feb. 2018].

Sharma, B., Sarkar, A., Singh, P., & Singh, R. P. (2017). Agricultural utilization of biosolids: A review on potential effects on soil and plant grown. Waste Management, 64, 117-132.

Sumner, M. E. (2000). Beneficial use of effluents, wastes, and biosolids. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 31(11-14), 1701-1715.

Tsadilas, C. D., Mitsios, I. K., & Golia, E. (2005). Influence of biosolids application on some soil physical properties. Communications in soil science and plant analysis, 36(4-6), 709-716.

Wang, H., Brown, S. L., Magesan, G. N., Slade, A. H., Quintern, M., Clinton, P. W., & Payn, T. W. (2008). Technological options for the management of biosolids. Environmental Science and Pollution Research-International, 15(4), 308-317.

What I did in my assignment:

-These things were done in small edits directly on the page, if there is any issues seeing what I did exactly please let me know.

1) Editing citations in the Quanitites section, this was done because there were no citations backing up the facts that were stated making it unreliable information.

2) Adding a section on the EU expanded the article past just the USA, showing people that bio solids are used on a global scale.

3) Some facts added throughout the article to give it more information

4) some rewording was done to make the article flow more