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December 24, 2013

Moxee fertilizer plant reuses zinc byproduct

  • Kronos Micronutrients is building new storage tanks to handle liquid zinc sulfate bought from a smelter.
    • By KATE PRENGAMAN
    Yakima Herald-Republic

    MOXEE, Yakima County — Fifteen years after its process of turning industrial waste into fertilizer helped spawn a statewide controversy, a Moxee plant is still one of the nation's top producers of zinc fertilizer — and it's expanding.

    But in the aftermath of negative press and new state regulations, the company overhauled its process and built a new plant that no longer repurposes zinc-rich waste material from smelter flue dust and the remains of burned tires, which once raised concerns about lead and cadmium contamination.


     
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