Jim Lehrer hosts a discussion about the problem of sludge, and ways of dealing with it, for The Robert MacNeil Report. "Sludge" is the waste left behind after sewage has been treated, which some coastal cities have piped into the ocean. Following beach closures due to sludge washing up onto the shores of Long Island, experts discuss other methods for dealing with sludge dumping into the oceans is being phased out. Options discussed fall into either disposal methods, incinerating it or storing it in a land fill, or recycling methods, converting it into compost.
