Sentences with phrase «used human waste»

Other artists have used human waste itself as a medium.

We could make small - scale microbial fuel cells that use human waste to make drinking water, electricity, or both.

Amid plans to send humans to planet Mars, researchers have shown the possibility of using human waste to provide nutrients for astronauts on deep - space mission.

If there are no other options for houses without basements (aside from manually removing the waste and dumping it into a composter), and considering my distaste at the idea of using human waste compost in a garden, I would simply opt for the equally priced / size incinerator unit.

But I personally would never use human waste compost in a garden, so making compost would just be the result of this waste particular elimination method... not for practical use in my situation.

Not exact matches

The team's design uses solar energy (captured with photovoltaic panels) to power an electrochemical reactor that converts water and human waste into fertilizer and hydrogen.

«We are applying our design and creativity to the supply chain — not just the product,» said Allen, who is using robots to manufacture clothing, thus addressing the waste and human - rights concerns raised by critics of the apparel industry.

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.

No more religion - in politics, schools, or work, It needs to go - Its time to use all of the wasted resources that is being using on Christianity and Islam for something that actually benefits the human race and doesn't cause continuous strife.

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).

The FLW Standard does not require that you use a particular quantification method because the quantification method (s) you choose will be influenced by your particular goals, the scope selected for your food loss and waste inventory, the human and financial resources available, and whether you have direct access to the physical lost or wasted food.

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 UK government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.

The UK Government's waste agency has said that alternative protein sources will be needed for humans and livestock to reduce land and energy use.

Food waste is part of food loss and refers to discarding or alternative (non-food) use of safe and nutritious food for human consumption all along food supply chains (FAO, 2014).

Although human food waste is used to feed livestock in certain regions, this may be another opportunity for the pet food industry.

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

Little is left of the vehicle, either a water or human waste taker, that was used for the bombing, said Najib Danish, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.

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

Phosphorus in human waste was responsible for about 54 percent of the global load, while agricultural fertilizer use contributed about 38 percent.

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.

For centuries humans have used up the planet's resources, saddled it with our waste and simply moved on when a wellspring dried up or the back forty became polluted.

China has always been quite at home with human waste, they used it raw on the fields for 4,000 years.

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.

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

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.

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.

Geologists and engineers accounted for the gigantic mass of materials — transportation systems, housing, shoes, waste — that humans created and use to stay alive and thrive in the world.

So the idea would be to identify the enzymes these organisms use to digest lysosomal wastes, modify them a bit to help them work in the slightly different environment of the human lysosome, and then deliver them to where they need to go in our cells.

The ocean has long been used as a means of disposal of human wastes, and still is used this way in many areas of the world.

Water use: 522,677 gallons of water used Waste From January to July 2016, we prevented over 17,100 pounds of substances harmful to human health from entering landfills due to our recycling and proper waste disposal efforts.

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

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

In Figure 2, it can be seen that in Circular Economy, natural resources, which are used as primary raw materials in the manufacturing process, are transformed into products for human consumption that will generate solid waste that, after it became a secondary raw material, it's used in manufacturing products, and so on.

Friends who use the toilet, for example, would possibly discover the litter insert in the bathroom or even unflushed waste that they could attribute to the human.

For example, low - quality ingredients like by - product meal and other rendered animal products are not for human consumption (they are considered inedible waste) yet they are frequently used in cheaper dog foods.

What's more, although humans are disgusted by urine and feces, cats don't see them as unpleasant, so they would be unlikely to use waste products as weapons against their humans.

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

Sherman's assertive use of masks, wigs and prosthetics has a disturbing effect, which is further reinforced in pictures where the human presence is gradually reduced in favour of posed dolls or traces of waste and decay.

Projects address the Anthropocene — climate change; industrialization and urbanization; bio-diversity; water; the use of natural and human resources; human migration; global capital, commerce and consumption; energy production; and waste.

Staff doubles it as metaphor for the use of certain chemicals in hormone therapy, while vistas of desolate freeways and toxic waste sites flicker in and out; Soshoux appears as an infrared inversion, a swift comment on technology's mercilessness in transforming human beings into anonymous data points.

How we use land, general human consumption, energy choices, eating habits, our lifestyles, and wastes all add to the condition to the environment.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

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.

To handle human waste, the OTIS uses a composting toilet.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

I don't want to spoil the ending of the story for you, but there is also a good lesson on sustainability and how we can be doing a better job of putting human waste to beneficial use (once it is properly processed for safety).

In an ideal human condition, where cities and neighborhoods are planned out with the pedestrian in mind, the calories we use with our bodies wouldn't be wasted on vain or useless activities, such as exercise.

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.