Sentences with phrase «from human waste»

So now you got fumes from human waste, toxic cleaners, hairsprays and solvents and drain cleaners, all building up in a tiny little room with a closed door and a twelve buck fan that nobody turns on.

Researchers at the University of South Florida College of Engineering have developed a new technology that will provide developing areas with a source of clean energy, water and fertilizer all from human waste.

He and his team of six developed a flushing toilet that sanitizes the water and produces hydrogen from human waste to create electricity.

«One example of our field work is in Ghana, where we've been working with Engineers Without Borders, the student chapter at Columbia University, to design and implement novel toilets that can separate out the urine stream and the fecal sludge stream from human waste.

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.

While working on a system to grow edible mushrooms from human waste for long - duration space missions, he recalls that «it occurred to me that not all astronauts will want to be vegetarians» (to say nothing of eating those mushrooms).

Nitrogen from human waste has been blamed for feeding algal blooms that have led to closed beaches and shellfishing areas in creeks and bays across the county.

Not exact matches

The testimonies from the passengers are truly disgusting: Hallways were flooded with human waste, there was no A / C or running water, and passengers were left to survive on limited food and water.

On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big data» is doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future well blowouts are being averted (maybe).

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.»

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

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.

We are merely on the receiving end and since He transcends our world it is a total waste of time even trying to figure out what he may or may not do from a purely human perspective.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

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.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...

The workbook has 14 chapters encompassing best practices from the grape to glass: viticulture, soil management, vineyard water management, pest management, wine quality, ecosystem management, energy efficiency, winery water conservation and quality, material handling, solid waste reduction and management, environmentally preferable purchasing, human resources, neighbors and community and air quality.

Moving dairy waste products like acid whey and permeate away from uses in pig feed and toward uses in the creation of products for human consumption.

The Workbook has 14 chapters encompassing best practices from the grape to glass: viticulture, soil management, vineyard water management, pest management, wine quality, ecosystem management, energy efficiency, winery water conservation and quality, material handling, solid waste reduction and management, environmentally preferable purchasing, human resources, neighbors and community and air quality.

Globally, about one - third (approximately 1.3 bn tonnes) of food produced for human consumption every year is either lost or wasted while moving from farm to fork.

By removing human error from the supply chain, APRIL EYE reduces food waste related to the incorrect date coding of products.

A whopping one - third of all food intended for human consumption is lost or wasted from farm to fork.

Did you know that about one - third of all food intended for human consumption is lost or wasted from farm to fork every year?

Around a third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted from the farm to the fork.

«From a sustainability perspective, I love the idea of creative use of unavoidable waste like human waste,» Price told Fox News.

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.

The type of diaper you're changing won't protect you from the stench of human waste, dear reader.

Toilets were designed to effectively separate human waste from human contact, in order to stop the spread of deadly bacteria, viruses and parasites found in 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.

When the county built a hiking and biking rail over the waste beds, it was required to put up fences to keep people away from the soil because it could be hazardous to humans.

The Hudson River is currently littered with everything from human and animal waste to motor oil and used condoms.

My destination is the Bernard landing strip, where a Forest Service crew is working on weed eradication and human - waste disposal, two responses to threats borne from the outside.

Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of «mad cow disease» or BSE, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, which has long remained a mystery.

After the fly eggs hatch, the larvae feast on waste: leftovers from human food production like juice pulp, and slaughterhouse scraps like pork blood.

The raw data included DNA from bacteria in the teeth, usually considered «old waste data,» says Willerslev, because it can contaminate the human DNA samples.

Professor Heath said: «Wildlife everywhere capitalizes on waste from human activity, and discarded fish are food for a wide range of seabirds, marine mammals, seabed animals and other fish.

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.

«Fuel from sewage is the future — and it's closer than you think: Technology converts human waste into bio-based fuel.»

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.

In recent years, humans have been introducing exotic earthworm species from Europe and Asia through fishing, timber harvesting, municipal green waste management and gardening.

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

Wiedinmyer wondered if this burning waste could be an underappreciated source of air pollutants, from greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide to tiny particles and toxic chemicals that can harm human lungs.

An ideal solution would be «a modern equivalent of the chamber pot,» said Strash, one that would also tackle the cultural issues of handling human waste and move communities away from using open pit latrines.

Although it is theoretically possible to produce biodiesel from human fat, it is still illegal to put medical waste in your gas tank.

A toxic cloud composed of industrial waste and human remains crept out from the aching, smoldering pit at Ground Zero and wound its way into the adjoining streets.

The nutrients these algal blooms feed on come from synthetic fertilizers and animal manure, human and industrial waste.

And as newer versions of organs on chips get better at mimicking the function of real organs — a kidney's ability to filter waste from the bloodstream, for example — the devices themselves may find their way into humans, replacing or augmenting underperforming organs.

In one approach, a one - cell - thick layer of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells or adult RPE stem cells is placed on a material that allows nutrients and waste materials to pass through and is implanted in the eye.