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Published online 29 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040426-10
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Brownfields get muck makeover
Sewage and rubble offer way to reuse land.
Environmental engineers are testing an unlikely method of reclaiming contaminated land: spreading sewage on it.
The Biostore project, which this week began trials near Huddersfield in Britain, aims to create solid building foundations from a mixture of treated sewage, coal shale and discarded building rubble.
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