Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
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Our excrement is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – if only we can overcome our visceral disgust of it
The Liminality of Landfills
Landfills are physically liminal because they are spaces of transition, occupying a threshold between former and future uses. The land itself is in an unstable, transitory state, with decomposing waste causing the ground to settle and shift. This makes it unfit for most construction for decades, a physical manifestation o
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only an impossibly complete recycling of all wastes voided by grazing animals could, together with near-perfect recycling of all other sources of organic nitrogen, provide the amount of nitrogen annually applied to crops in ammonia-based fertilizers. Meanwhile, there are no other materials that can rival the combination of malleability, durability,
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