Hazardous Waste in Fertilizers

State of Washington Fertilizer Product Database
WSDA's fertilizer product database provides information on the metals concentrations of each of the nine heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, mercury, molybdenum, lead, nickel, selenium, and zinc) for which Washington State has standards. If the link doesn’t work,. Go to www.wa.gov and search for the subject ‘fertilizer’ on their search window. All products in this database are currently registered for distribution in Washington State.

Safe Food and Fertilizer
This website gives information about the contamination of agricultural soil in a county in the state of Washington. It has links to other websites dealing with toxics and agriculture.

Fear in the Fields: How Hazardous Waste Becomes Fertilizer
The Seattle Times published a number of excellent articles alerting the public to the problem of hazardous waste in fertilizer and the impacts this problem has had on farming communities in Washington.