Sentences with phrase «as human waste»

Accountants should show governments the financial as well as human waste of using shoddy materials and designs, even for the short term: many schools are crumbling even without earthquakes, and they are expensive to heat, repair, and replace.

Use toilets if provided, as human waste in lakes and streams is unhealthy and promotes unnatural levels of algal growth.

This factory also produces waste products which can not be used by the body and is eliminated as human waste, urine, sweat, etc..

Using hydrothermal liquefaction, organic matter such as human waste can be broken down to simpler chemical compounds.

Not exact matches

Traditional dog food starts with poor quality ingredients (waste from the human food industry) and is processed so heavily by extrusion that it is necessary for companies to add synthetic vitamins to sell food as «complete and balanced.»

As human resources expert Susan M. Heathfield explains, «Poor goal setting makes people cynical, wastes their time and fosters confusion about where to concentrate actions and energy.»

Waste to energy technology has been backed as an «affordable» way for municipalities to manage wastes and generate energy, with «almost no measurable effect on human health», according to scientists and industry experts at the recent Energy Recovery Symposium in Toronto, Canada.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

It could have been obedience not unlike the ridiculous and actually law - breaking action that God asked Ezekiel to do (correct me if I have the wrong guy here) by cooking his «Ezekiel Bread» (as advertized today) over human waste.

Ah, so much is said about human want and misery — I seek to understand it, I have also had some acquaintance with it at close range; so much is said about wasted lives — but only that man's life is wasted who lived on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows that he never became eternally and decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, or (what is the same thing) never became aware and in the deepest sense received an impression of the fact that there is a God, and that he, he himself, his self, exists before this God, which gain of infinity is never attained except through despair.

He'd say the same as above, plus, what a wasted, bitter, human you turned out to be.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

In the early 1920s, leaders in the Church of England asked one of their own, John Kenneth Mozley, to prepare a report on how theologians were dealing with the doctrine, particularly as the British were coming to grips with the implications of massive human waste in the World War just concluded.

The only thing that makes atheists depressed is seeing the waste of all those human being's potential in their pursuit of idiotic ideals as promoted by various religions.

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

What this Devil needs to encourage is the human tendency to identify as liberating the reduction of any aspiration, however seemingly noble or virtuous, to bodily wastes, as if he were an ardent press agent for the scatological mysticism of the French writer Georges Bataille.

In the view of the Barnesville (Georgia) Herald - Gazette, for example, those who have been condemned to die are «human waste,» and thus «executing them should come as easily to a civilized society as flushing the toilet.»

Neither Goldsmith's weird workshop nor Rex's rhetoric qualify as humane study because neither project believes in such a thing: «Wasting Time on the Internet» is a theoretical paean to artlessness, and Animal Rhetorics calls unequivocally for the end of human distinctiveness.

Buber pointed to an essential tendency, a spiritual stance, developed by the experience of being treated, in fact and not metaphorically, as «human waste» by superior force exercised by malevolent men who intended the Jews» destruction.

Decency as a human being has not led me to change this habit; the only thing I am using the knife for is to defend my idiosyncracy (okay, I kid — but I am not wasting my perfectly good time in trying to neatly cut a too - big piece of that coconut chocolate off when it doesn't deserve it).

Lewis also commented that as long as waste food is fit for human consumption he would much prefer it to go to people than into animal feed or fuel.

Food loss and waste in Timor - Leste has been identified as a critical factor contributing to human undernutrition.

Dairy's dark secret may leave a sour taste in your mouth... Hundreds of thousands of week - old bobby calves are killed as «waste products» of this industry each year — just so humans can drink their mothers» milk.

In western medicine the human placenta is usually regarded as nothing more than human waste.

I agree food waste is a big problem, but the answer to food waste is not rendering scraps otherwise destined for dog food fit for human consumption by applying a chemical spray and then trying to pass it off as wholesome beef!

It is illegal to dispose of human waste, such as throwing away a poop - filled diaper.

The human digestive system treats cellulose as a waste product — meaning that uncooked fruits and veggies MAY give your baby diarrhea.

But diapers that can be flushed down the toilet, such as gDiapers, will biodegrade when treated with other human waste.

Your involvement is crucial to the success of the campaign and can contribute to efforts to end the dreadful waste of human lives, which every year sees over 500,000 women from the developing world die unnecessarily, simply as a result of being pregnant.

Brooklyn's Prospect Park boosters spent $ 2.34 million in taxpayer money to install four composting toilets, which will collect human waste that they hope can be spread around the park as fertilizer one day.

We now have health care by bureaucracy and efficiency targets and waste which has undermined what he sees as the most natural human instinct, to really care for people.

He's campaigning on the motto «Stop Wasting Our Money,» and proposes capping public - sector salaries at $ 100,000 a year and eliminating various state agencies such as the Thruway Authority, the Division of Human Rights, and the Office of Homeland Security.

«Mr Cameron singled out human rights law, reform of workplace rights and support for marriage as areas where Tory principles are being held in check but urged senior MPs growing tired of coalition not to «waste» the next three years.

The decongestion exercise was to ensure sanity within the metropolis as the activities of the hawkers and the traders on the shoulders of the road and pavements, impede human and vehicular movement, as well as adding to the build - up of waste along streets.

The action was in a bid to ensure sanity within the metropolis as the activities of the hawkers and the traders on the shoulders of the road and pavements impede human and vehicular movement, as well as result in the creation of huge waste along the streets.

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

«Volatile organic compounds are created by physiological processes of the human body's metabolism and are expelled as waste through faeces.

This type of waste often consists of items such as used protective clothing, which is only slightly contaminated but still dangerous in case of radioactive contamination of a human body through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

There is an elegance to Dwork's approach that is almost as appealing as its practical value: After years of humans wasting time deleting spam from their in - boxes, the ultimate spam - blocking solution may turn out to be wasting the computer's time — on purpose.

Fred Pearce describes the role of «honey - suckers» in recycling human waste as fertiliser in contemporary India (16 February, p 48).

Mindful of public sensitivities, Daley opted to pursue experiments using what he considers the least controversial human materials to create new nonpresidential stem cell lines — poor quality embryos and oocytes that, in his words, «otherwise would have been disposed of as medical waste.»

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.

Although fertilizer derived from human waste is prohibited for organic crops, it can be used for conventional crops and for other applications, such as maintaining golf courses.

As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.&raquAs the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.&raquas purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»

They also believe that the broken pots had come from heaps of household waste, which were spread over the fields as fertiliser and would have contained human or animal faeces.

Antibiotics also get into croplands when human waste is applied as fertilizer, and directly from livestock on pasture.

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

At the conference, Åke Wennmalm of the consulting agency Sustainpharma in Stockholm presented part of a new, expanded classification system that analyzes the environmental impacts of a drug — where data are available — as it travels through manufacturing, disposal, and human waste.