The phrase
"human waste" refers to the waste products produced by the human body, such as urine and feces. It is the materials that the body no longer needs and gets rid of.
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Evidence
of human waste on the floor indicated the children were prevented from using the toilet.
He went down a covered yellow slide, and when he came out the other end, he was covered
in human waste.
However, in many instances dealing
with human waste on site is an unexpected and low - priority task for maintenance crews.
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.
There's already
human waste on the moon in bags left there by astronauts.
This factory also produces waste products which can not be used by the body and is eliminated
as human waste, urine, sweat, etc..
We could make small - scale microbial fuel cells that
use human waste to make drinking water, electricity, or both.
Many of the solutions being developed involve cutting - edge technology that could
turn human waste into fuel to power local communities, fertilizer to improve crops, or even safe drinking water.
The cost of implementing new programs to first
put human waste into water and then remove it seems like making a mistake that need not be made.
In just the last year or so, four different shows at P.S. 1 have obsessed
over human waste, in a museum now way too old to be playing with its food.
Her use of microbes to
convert human waste into clean water and electricity is another step toward making disease a thing of the past.
They contend that collecting carbon dioxide is akin to
collecting human waste (a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it).
Corn starch (best thing EVER to get
human waste smell out of carpet, furniture, what have you) became our best friend.
They'll know that
human waste comes out of your body, like you're some sort of mutant!
A new study shows that
human waste accounts for a high percentage of nutrients consumed by some animals and plants in suburban ponds.
I honestly think that most breeders are
human waste who have no souls, that is the only way they can morally continue their disgusting habits.
But
most human waste is collected for sewage treatment, which has been found to be reasonably effective when applying modern technologies.
They also, according to the video, are a great way to dispose of
human waste if needed.
Above: Most of the clumps you see are actual
dried human waste, just piles of it everywhere.
And no society can be healthy without the proper disposal
of human waste.
He also has an unhealthy obsession
with human waste and what we should do with it.
One important thing to mention is that in reality, there are very few composting toilets that actually
compost human waste within the unit itself.
I have read some amazing articles in New Scientist and the Times magazine about the problem around the world with
human waste products in general, including waste of plastics and chemicals left over by increasing industries and pollution in general and how this affects an increasingly dwindling supply of pure fresh water left in nature.
Direct Abundance and Caribbean S.E.A. are partnering together to offer educational programs about coral reef and mangrove conservation, safe water and sewage discharge solutions. The need for these programs is essential for the San Mateo area as their homes are located in a swamp highly contaminated
by human waste.
Passenger Gregg Stark told CNN, «There's
human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing — and in the state rooms.»
Fred Pearce describes the role of «honey - suckers» in
recycling human waste as fertiliser in contemporary India (16 February, p 48).
This week, host's Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tell the fascinating story of the New York City Poop Train, which used to ship tons of
human waste sludge from New York City to farmers in Colorado, 1,600 miles away.
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.
Protecting soil with cover crops, minimizing tillage, and periodic use of composts (including
human wastes where possible) not only starts this long sequestration process, it reduces the need for fossil fuel based fertilizers, and helps make soils productive even during low - rain years.
If you use disposables and are putting the poopy diapers in the trash you are actually breaking the law in many places
because human waste is considered a bio-hazard and shouldn't be in landfills.
In developing countries with no on - site or centralized sanitation facilities, no opportunity exists for any type of treatment, and
human wastes go directly into surface waters, including the coastal ocean.
The fellow who left 40 containers of
human waste at the Department of Environmental Conservation's headquarters building has pleaded guilty to criminal mischief and is on probation.
«The more the number of climbers, the
more human waste and garbage that are left on the mountain.
The intestinal infection caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae can rapidly spread
when human waste mixes with water.
Flushed from New York and New Jersey, millions of pounds of biosolids — the technical term for
treated human waste....
It's my guess that governments are probably going to start cracking down on disposable diapers,
containing human waste, entering the landfills at some point.
Human waste carrying nitrogen is finding its way into our bays and creeks, mostly through outdated cesspool and septic systems.
This Japanese unit uses sawdust as an «artificial soil matrix» to
decompose human waste into odorless water and carbon dioxide through aerobic fermentation.