Tag: phosphogypsum

  • Clock Ticking on Florida’s Mountains of Hazardous Phosphate Waste

    Clock Ticking on Florida’s Mountains of Hazardous Phosphate Waste

    One of the largest fertilizer manufacturing plants in the world sits about six miles southwest of the Polk County hamlet of Mulberry, with its entrance in walking distance of the Hillsborough County line. About 800 employees work there, turning phosphate rock into nearly 4 million tons of fertilizer and animal food ingredients every year. They…