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Effluence to affluence

Liina Flynn | 11th March 2010

Rather than creating environmental problems by pumping effluent into rivers and oceans, Dr Bolton believes wastewater should be utilised as a resource. The projects he has been involved with have taken him from growing the first fields of industrial hemp on the North Coast through to creating sustainable solutions to sewage problems in remote Aboriginal communities.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Man, that's good sewage - but hemp trial has dope dealers in a spin

 

If [Dr] Keith Bolton has his way, hemp - the great symbol of the hippy North Coast - will be coming to a sewage treatment plant near you very soon. And to your wardrobe, your pantry, your car and your medicine cabinet.Interestingly, the strongest opponents of the Southern Cross University academic's dream are the drug dealers in nearby Nimbin.

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