Sentences with phrase «collecting human waste»

They contend that collecting carbon dioxide is akin to collecting human waste (a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it).

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.

Not exact matches

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

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.

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.

When girls in deep poverty have to spend their days toting water or collecting firewood instead of going to school, that's a population problem in the end, as well as a simple, and avoidable, waste of human potential.

According to TVCiencia, the waste will be collected in a large pool, called a bio-digester — an infrastructure where bacteria transforms human waste into methane which can then be used as an energy source.

Using an image on a resume is a bad idea for two reasons: It usually wastes space and can sow confusion for the applicant tracking system software that collects and stores resumes for human resources managers and recruiters.