#sewage waste

[reasonsforhope]

"In Washington D.C., a sophisticated sewage treatment plant is turning the capital’s waste into a form of capital: living capital that is fertilizing the gardens of farms of the Mid-Atlantic region and saving vast quantities of resources.

Described by the workers’ there as a “resource recovery plant,” D.C. Water run a biogas plant and high-quality fertilizer production in the course of their dirty duty to ensure the city’s waste finds a safe endpoint.

The nation’s capital is exceptional at producing waste from the toilet bowls of the 2.2 million people who live, work, and commute through the city and its suburbs.

Reporting by Lina Zeldovich reveals that rather than trucking it all to a landfill, D.C. Water extract an awful lot of value from the capital crap, by looking at it as a resource to send through the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, which uses a “thermal hydrolysis process” in which it is sterilized, broken down, and shipped off for processing into “Bloom,” a nitrogen-rich, slow-release fertilizer product. 

The other “Black Gold”

At their facility in southwest Washington, huge aeration tanks percolate the poo of everyone from tourists to the President. After it’s all fed into enormous pressure cookers where, under the gravity of six earth atmospheres and 300°F, the vast black sludge is rendered harmless.

Next this “Black Gold,” as Zeldovich described it, is pumped into massive bacterial-rich tanks where microbes breakdown large molecules like fats, proteins, and carbs into smaller components, shrinking the overall tonnage of sewage to 450 tons per day down from 1,100 at the start of the process.

This mass-micro-munching also produces methane, which when fed into an onsite turbine, generates a whopping 10 megawatts of green energy which can power 8,000 nearby homes. [Note: Natural gas (which is mostly methane) is definitely greener than coal and oil, but it still causes a significant amount of emissions and greenhouse gases.] The 450 tons of remaining waste from the D.C. feces are sent into another room where conveyor belts ring out excess fluid before feeding it through large rollers which squash it into small congregate chunks.

D.C. Water sends this to another company called Homestead Gardens for drying, aging, and packaging before it’s sold as Bloom.

“I grow everything with it, squashes, tomatoes, eggplants,” Bill Brower, one of the plant’s engineers, tells Zeldovich. “Everything grows great and tastes great,” he adds.

“And I’m not the only one who thinks so. We’ve heard from a lot of people that they’ve got the best response they’ve ever seen from the plants. Particularly with leafy greens because that nitrogen boost does well with leafy plants. And the plants seem to have fewer diseases and fewer pests around—probably because Bloom helps build healthy soils.”

While farms around the country are facing nutrient depletion in soils from over-farming, turning to synthetic fertilizers to make up the difference, introducing more such thermal hydrolysis plants could truly revolutionize the way humans look at their feces—as a way of restoring the country’s soils rather than polluting them. As Mike Rowe would say, it only takes a person who’s willing to get their hands dirty."

-via Good News Network, November 23, 2021

Note: You can buy this fertilizer yourself here!

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[helianthus21]

just love the idea of Cha-young and Han-seo committing crimes against the Italian cuisine and Vincenzo watching miserably but not saying anything bc he is whipped for both of them😔

#cha young happily ordering sewage waste and han-seo eating his pizza with pineapple on top #😔😔 #vincenzo #jang han seo #chayenzo #actually he might say sth to cha young bc he loves bickering with her<3

[generalelectionmusings]

#therese coffey #uk #politics #tory #conservative party #ukpol #sewage #waste

[unitreat]

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[apotelesmaa]

Idk who needs to hear this but you cannot flush tampons down the toilet. Look at me. I am being so serious. You cannot do this. You cannot do it in any toilet regardless of where it is. I’m sorry if nobody told you this. It will clog the pipes. The purpose of a tampon is to expand and prevent liquid from getting through an opening. You cannot flush it. Sewage water will begin to come out of the toilet. The little signs and trash cans in the stalls of public restrooms are not there for fun they’re there so you don’t have human waste flood the bathroom. Throw your tampon away. Please.

#did ur mothers not teach u this 😐 this was like the first thing I was taught. #‘what prompted this’ either a friend or someone else visiting this house flushed a tampon down the toilet. #guess what happened. guess. #a beautiful four day adventure in which half of the house (showers and sinks included) could not be used #i had to wipe pee water off the floor. my mom took a shower and her shower was connected to the toilet #so sewage water began coming out and got all over the floor #and we were lucky. the worst case scenario is it literally floods the entire floor. #‘but nothing bad ever happened to me’ until u have to have a plumber come out with the big boy tools #after spending hours wiping waste off the floor. it will happen to u. ur not exempt.

[lost-technology]

I had a thought today that is either funny, disturbing or both, depending upon how you take it. So, the Mister and I went forth a-voting today and we went off to get ourselves some lunch. Coming home, we saw a homemade campaign sign on the side of the highway protesting / urging people to vote against a couple of candidates who were proposing an expansion of a local sewage plant. Me: Since I've had my brain in Trigun lately (I was writing a fanfiction chapter last night) I've been thinking about THOSE Plants - you know, the humanoid sapient caged-people ones who make and process everything on that planet. This means that SOME of them HAVE to be sewage-processors, doesn't it? THOSE POOR PLANTS! My Lovely Mister-Man: Meet Mario and Luigi. This one's Mario, this one's Luigi. Me: I think I'm going to write a fanfic about that now.

#plants (trigun) #trigun plants #worldbuilding for fictional worlds #most writers forget about waste processing #and other nasty things that make civilized life possible for the rest of us #dirty jobs noman's land with mike rowe #sewage plants probably convert the human...leavings...and toma...leavings... #into fertilizer utilized by geoplants who grow flora #there has GOT to be a system here! #if nightow didn't think about the tiny stupid little things about his world #because of the law of conservation of detail to get to the main points of a story #I will dammit! #fandom away! #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun stampede

[saengineering1]

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 Embracing Eco-Friendly Solutions

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[grandboute]

Picture brand

Clothes made in France from waste

Picture organic clothing

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[oodlenoodleroodle]

I forgot to eat lunch so I had to scrounge up something that'll tide me over til dinner but won't make me too full...

Had some chocolate spread on bread and some crisps.

Which works out nicely because dinner's gonna be tofu and parsnip (trying a new fancy recipe) and I forgot to include a starch with dinner.

#i never worry about starch we eat more than enough of bread and chips and stuff in this family #i dont even worry about protein because p much everyone living in 'first world countries' is getting too much protein as is. #did you know they study sewage and can measure things that show up in pee on a population level #so like you can study the sewage of a city and see if people use a lot of drugs or not. #and same goes for protein. all the excess protein that people eat they just pee it out #which is extra maddening when the protein comes from animal sources like you didnt need that and all those resources that were used to #raise that animal and feed it etc were wasted because your body couldnt even use that much protein. you just peed it out. #its like a roman feast where the only thing that matters is consumption :(

[indizombie]

Every year, we toss away 10 million tons of fish — that could fill more than 4,500 swimming pools — because of bad fishing practices and processing. This could be prevented, and in turn directly decrease pressure on our oceans. Around 80% of global wastewater is currently being diverted into oceans, unfiltered. In the poorest countries of the world it's even up to 95%. This wastewater pollutes, contaminates and destroys oceans and coastal regions. Building sustainable sewage systems, especially in developing countries, would protect ocean ecosystems and contribute to better drinking water supplies in many places.

Tim Schauenberg, ‘How to save our high seas from overfishing, pollution’, BBC

#BBC #Tim Schauenberg #food waste #bad fishing practices #wastewater dumping #ocean contamination #sustainable sewage systems #ocean ecosystems #drinking water supplies

[kagrenacs]

In a modern au where nothing happens Dralli is a mentally ill parks and rec town employee working to dig graves and yes, she’s a lesbian ❤️

#I do have this whole transition into espionage and high up mercenary work in game but without world ending circumstances she simply wouldn’t #the planemeld would be an attempted merger between parks and rec and waste disposal bc molag bal is a sewage man #that’s mean to sanitary workers. I love you sanitation workers ❤️ !!!!!!

[dineshmythri]

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[helianthus21]

just imagine Vincenzo, Han-seo and Cha-young going shopping together,,,, Cha-young would just sleep the whole time

#vincenzo #chayenzo #jang han seo #hong cha young #vin + han seo just trying on 10 identical looking designer suits #cha young: 😐 #then cha young would get to try on a dress #and vin would be out of commission for the rest of the day #cha young and han seo get a sewage waste at starbucks or sth

[cleanenviro]

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[unitreat]

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[darshan11]

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