Tacoma, Wash.-Pierce County officials think their new SoundGRO fertilizer, produced from biosolids, does such a good job they want everyone to try it. Through March residents are invited to pick up two 50-pound bags at no charge to find out what SoundGRO can do for their lawns, shrubs, and trees, and become some of the hundreds of future customers the county hopes to entice, spokesman Dick Ferguson said. Samples also are available for commercial applicators. Pierce County Environmental Services decided in 2004 to quit transporting Class B biosolids to Lewis County in Washington for pasture application and installed an $11.2 million pelletizer system purchased from Andritz-Ruthner Inc. of Arlington Tex. The changeover was completed last October. Some 2,300 tons of pelletized fertilizer are expected to be produced annually, to be used at the 930-acre county-owned Chambers Creek properties site, including the newly constructed Chambers Bay golf course. What’s left will be sold to the public and commercial users. A patent application has been filed for SoundGRO with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
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