Sentences with phrase «human waste carrying»

Human waste carrying nitrogen is finding its way into our bays and creeks, mostly through outdated cesspool and septic systems.

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Curt Schilling got a massive Jesus tattoo on his arm... Gronk is officially an investor in the racehorse named after him... Guy Fieri admitted he doesn't actually like everything he eats on Diners, Drive - ins & Dives... A train carrying millions of pounds of human waste has been stuck in a small Alabama town, preventing the people from spending any time outside... The expansion Golden Knights are now betting co-favorites to win the Stanley Cup.

An entire subculture of scavenger workers emerged to scrape, collect, and carry London's human waste to the edge of the city, where it could be used as fertilizer for nearby farms.

At home and abroad, animal and human waste can contaminate both recreational and source waters, carrying with diseases such as polio, typhoid and cholera.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), «When pet waste is improperly disposed of, it can be picked up by storm - water runoff and washed into storm drains or nearby water bodies --[it] carries bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can threaten the health of humans and wildlife.»

So the issue to me isn't that carrying water and gathering fuel is a waste of human potential — frankly, that statement does smack of Western elitism, at least superficially.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).