For your consideration ↓

  rough
  draft.
[ thinking out loud. ]
         

PRO-BONO OPTION 1 ?  * 



Simple, Cost-Effective,
Immediately Applicable Option 1*

(Solving the problem of paint in the food chain a.s.a.p.)*



thoughtful co-operation for universal (?) implementation.

( THE NUCLEAR OPTION ?? )




E.G. :

Rather than turning a blind eye to hazardous waste (i.e. paint) washed down the drain (inadvertently cycled into our food chain) we could (????) adopt a user friendly schedule to deal with the bulk of the problem -- immediately. *

i.e.

•  With current infrastructure.*

•  At almost no cost.*

•  And with almost no extra labour.*

•  Or inconvenience whatsoever.*

(e.g.)   70^(?) / 30^(?) weekly split *


Just as we schedule our garbage collection, we could (????) likewise begrudgingly permit -- and, thereby account for -- some paint waste streams through a limited percent of the week  (e.g. 4:30pm Friday to 7:00pm Sunday*² (30%) while prohibiting it the remainder of the week (e.g. 7:00pm Sunday to 4:30 pm Friday (70%).**

This would allow our treatment plants to keep*² diverting the majority of processed waste into cheap, rich fertilizer. Only, unlike now, where it's routinely (unavoidably) laced with traces of (paint etc.), it would instead be much, much, much more toxin free;

With very little increase in cost, processing, labour, or transport...


An ENORMOUS improvement ????
 

     (CONTINUED BELOW)

Addendum  !!!!!  💡  !!!!!!

COMPLIMENTARY, PRO BONO (OPEN SOURCE & PERFECTLY SCALABLE)
*OPTION 2* COMING SOON. !!!!!

... Moreover,

 
The remaining compromised sludge is still perfectly reasonable for the-almost-as-large NON-FOOD GRADE fertilizer and soil markets:

(...) sod farming, landscape top-soil, and NON-FOOD gardens / soil.




Downside (s) ?


In municipalities where properly built/ retrofitted sewer treatment infrastructure (dedicated, and separate storm and sewer drain pipes) already operates 24-7, it's actually much harder than you might imagine to argue convincingly in favor of the status quo.  (Pretending the problem doesn't exist.)

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* Since the status-quo alternatives are either continuing to poison our soils (...) or (2) ... steadily deplete them of rich, organic biomass (trace minerals...)  well, lets just say  – I don't really expect (solving this problem) to be a particularly hard sell.

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** Btw (1) a 70/30 Fri to Sunday schedule is just a theoretical (stab in the dark hypothetical) place to start. (Something easy to understand and communicate.)

Actual, blue-sky local schedules ... depend entirely on local logistics. (i.e.) flow-through times, volumes, and practicality of individual phase shifts ... (number of days required for maximum capture and clean...*⁴  (i.e. The amount of time it takes to clear/shift/track the flow-through... each cycle.)


2)  Main reservation most places:

WEATHER.    🕶️

Namely, since the vast majority of municipalities have some or, mostly old, combined storm/sewer combo pipes (single common pipes for both), there would need to be -- at the very least -- pauses and shifts in permitted (begrudged) disposal periods whenever rain is on the radar.

(Even so, still, not a lot more challenging than checking the local treatment schedule's twitter feed, and or watching the forecasts when and where it counts..  ...  i.e.  tweet the necessary schedule adjustments / cancellations until app(s) (...) reliably integrate weather data.


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Thanks for your interest,      👈🏻
(all the best :  💘  )

And stay tuned.   👈🏻  

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