Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
Lina Zeldovichaeon.co
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Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
There will be dust. There is always dust. By that I mean there is always time, and materiality, and decay. Decomposition and damage are inescapable. There is always the body, with its smears and secretions and messy flaking bits off. There is always waste and it always has to be dealt with, and shipping it out of sight overseas to the developing wo... See more
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
then it will be time to update the plumbing in U.S. cities to remove contaminants from sewage so human wastes can be recycled back to the farm.
Pamela C. Ronald • Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
In the natural world, nothing goes to waste. Matter constantly decomposes and reconstitutes in new shapes, serving new purposes. We have much to learn from this continuum of transmutation in human societies, where we throw “away” our waste to some invisible hereafter, rather than accept the truth: it remains.
Atmos
We could even generate energy from incinerating human feces if we so desired.
Dickson Despommier • The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century
Cycling simply means discovering how intensively waste can become food.