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Sanitize Your Home to Prevent Foodborne Illness
Keeping your house safe, clean and healthy is imperative to your family's health. This is especially important during the holidays when guests come and go all season long.
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Understanding Anaerobic Bacteria in Septic Tanks: A Complete Guide
Septic systems rely on anaerobic bacteria to break down waste efficiently, but over time, harmful factors can disrupt this natural balance. PORT, a specialized septic system additive, enhances the activity of both anaerobic and aerobic bacteria. By incorporating PORT, you improve waste decomposition
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Optimal Solutions for Reduction in TSS (Total Suspended Solids)
Managing total suspended solids (TSS) is crucial for maintaining optimal water quality in wastewater systems. High levels of TSS can negatively impact aquatic life, increase treatment costs, and lead to environmental fines. This blog explores effective strategies for reducing TSS, the role of aerati
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Paper Mill Hydrogen Sulfide Reduction & Corrosion Control with PORT
How PORT dramatically mitigated corrosion in municipal sewer lines and improved air quality Port Wentworth.
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Sweet Success: Reducing TSS and CBOD in a Commercial Bakery with PORT
PORT reduced the CBOD and TSS in a commercial bakery's effluent, allowing it to be accepted into the municipal water treatment plant.
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TSS Reduction & Disposal Fee Savings: A Success Story from a Chicken Processing Plant
A chicken processing plant used waste water treatment PORT to reduce 36,000 gallons of water going to waste haul, saving $1,600 per pump.
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How PORT Reduced Fresh Water Consumption at a Car Wash by 70%
How a car wash used PORT to reduce hydrogen sulfide, TSS and fresh water usage to exceed municipal requirements in four days.
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Septic Tank System Restoration with PORT
Learn how a 900-gallon septic system went from complete failure to functioning as new with PORT.
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How to Treat Horse Mites (Naturally!)
Feather mites, or Chorioptic mange mites, are a nuisance to horses and their owners. Learn how to eradicate these itchy, harmful pests naturally with an essential oils-based mite spray.
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Bridging the Gap: Agriculture and the Environment
There is no shortage of criticism for the agriculture industry, and one of the areas that receives the most attention is the interaction between agriculture practices and the environment. It’s time to bridge the gap!
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Bridging the Gap: Antibiotic Regulation in Food Animals
When are antibiotics allowed in animal agriculture? What are the rules around their use? What does “raised without antibiotics" really mean on food labels?
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Bridging the Gap: The Definition of Greenwashing
Sustainable. Responsible. Eco-friendly. All-natural. We see these terms slapped on labels all the time. But when companies’ actions don’t stack up to their environmental claims, it’s called greenwashing.
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What Does “Organic” Mean?
From organic produce and organic meat to organic makeup and organic skin care, we hear the term “organic” often. But what does it really mean, and when does it matter?
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Using a Bio Surfactant as a Natural Floor Cleaner
Pure B.S. (Biological Surfactant) is an environmentally-friendly floor cleaner that can be used in your home to safely and effectively eliminate spills and debris from your floors.
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Bridging the Gap: Intro to Agriculture Literacy
Basic knowledge and understanding of the agriculture industry and the products and people involved is more important now than it has ever been before, since such a large portion of the population is removed from agricultural practices.
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Buying Chicks Online: Our Experience 2022
Here at Southland Organics, we are passionate about helping you raise healthy chicks! For years, we've sold natural supplements for backyard chickens. During the summer of 2022, we figured it was high time we started a flock of our own. So we decided to buy chickens online. Here's our story! ## Ho
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Treating Vent Gleet and Pasty Butt in Chickens
Vent Gleet is a common infection of the cloaca, or vent. This infection can be caused by a different issue called pasty butt, and can be prevented with good gut health care.
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How to Raise Chicks- Getting New Backyard Chickens!
In summer 2022, we started our own chicken coop. Here's our process and advice on preparing for and taking care of new baby chicks.
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Merry Christmas from Southland Organics!
From all of us at Southland Organics, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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The Best Septic System Treatment: All-Natural Tank Care
For many homeowners, having a septic tank is the best, if not the only, option for taking care of your business. But when you have an issue with your septic tank, it can really stink!
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PORT: Vault Toilet Treatment
While preparing your property for the influx of visitors, don’t forget about your waste facilities.
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PORT: Organic Tank Treatment
Human waste is a natural problem, and we at Southland Organics want to provide a natural solution.
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Apartment Building Plumbing Problems: A Case Study
Southland Organics’ PORT is a powerful fix that provides rapid waste degradation and odor control. The beneficial bacteria in PORT liquified solids and erased the biofilm, allowing oxygen to stop the harmful bacteria from growing and eliminating a huge plumbing issue.
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The Secret to a Perfect Thanksgiving
The secret to a perfect Thanksgiving is no longer a secret...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
We're counting our blessings today, and you're one of them.
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Southland Organics lands on 10th Annual Bulldog 100
Southland Organics, based in Bogart, Georgia, is included in the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s 2019 Bulldog 100 list of fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni.
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Transforming Waste Management: The Incredible Story of How a Paper Mill Slashed Total Suspended Solids by Nearly 60% Using PORT
A major paper mill used PORT in its waste treatment facility and saw a 58.9% decrease in TSS and a 63.5% decrease in BOD.
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Case Study: The Appalachian Trail Minimizing Moldering
A member of the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club found out about our PORT product through a contact at the Joshua Tree in California. The contacts at Joshua Tree told him they had switched to PORT and found that it dealt with their concerns of odor and decomposition much more effectively than what the
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Odor Control in Portable Toilets
PORT is not a masking agent that simply covers up unpleasant odors, particularly hydrogen sulfide odors. It actually reduces the effluent’s ability to produce the odors.
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Landfill Odor Control | Foot and Mouth Burial Site
The foot and mouth outbreak was devastating and presented authorities with multiple dilemmas. Not only did they have to stop the spread but had to deal with hundred of thousands of carcasses.
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Brown Spots in your Yard?
Many home owners who have dogs are bothered with the effects of dog urine on their grass. When your dog relieves itself on your grass, you can expect your grass to turn brown or yellow.
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The Campground Pit Toilet
When campers and hikers exploring the great outdoors need a bathroom, what are their options? In many outdoor areas, such as national parks and campsites, it's common for visitors to have access to a pit toilet.
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Vault Toilet Meaning: A Step Up from the Pit
For sites with drivable road access but no running water, the common backcountry solution is to use a vault toilet.
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Eliminate Portable Toilet Odors Naturally
Southland Organics' PORT is a commercial grade biological odor eliminator and effluent treatment for portable toilets, portable restrooms, marine toilets, holding tanks and camping toilets.
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