May 3 - Americans are unknowingly purchasing fertilizers made from industrial toxic waste, turning farms and gardens into dumping grounds for the waste, according to Waste Lands: The Threat of Toxic Fertilizer, a new report released today by U.S. PIRG and the State Public Interest Research Groups. In tests commissioned by the California PIRG Charitable Trust, each of twenty-nine fertilizers were tested for and found to contain twenty-two toxic metals. Test results for twenty fertilizers showed that they exceed levels of concern for disposal in landfills.

Full report at: http://www.uspirg.org/