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Human waste (or human excreta) refers to the waste products of the human digestive system, menses, and human metabolism including urine and feces.As part of a sanitation system that is in place, human waste is collected, transported, treated and disposed of or reused by one method or another, depending on the type of toilet being used, ability by the users to pay for services and other factors.
Waste comes in many different forms and may be categorized in a variety of ways. The types listed here are not necessarily exclusive and there may be considerable overlap so that one waste entity may fall into one to many types.
In 2011 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" to promote safer, more effective ways to treat human waste. [58] The program is aimed at developing technologies that might help bridge the global sanitation gap (for example the Omni Processor, or technology for fecal sludge management). In 2015, the Bill ...
Reusable packaging - for example the use of a reusable shopping bag at the grocery store; although it uses more material than a single-use disposable bag, the material per use is less. Overpackaging - Some packaging uses more materials than is necessary for product containment and protection. Redesign can often reduce the size and materials ...
Various historic documents dating from the 9th century detail the disposal procedures for toilet waste. [5] Selling human waste products as fertilizers became much less common after World War II, both for sanitary reasons and because of the proliferation of chemical fertilizers, and less than 1% is used for night soil fertilization.
A WAG bag is a plastic bag used to carry human feces out of an area which has no toilets. [1] [2] WAG is an acronym that stands for Waste Alleviating Gel [1] or Waste Aggregation and Gelling. [3] Bags have a gel to immobilize liquid waste and surround and disinfect solid waste in a plastic bag, which is then put in the trash.
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (published in the United Kingdom as The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste), written by Rose George, is a descriptive representation of the history, advancement, cultural variation, solutions, and international need of sanitation. This work, written ...
LACW Local Authority Collected Waste (all waste collected by the local authority. This is a slightly broader concept than LACMW as it would include both this and non-municipal fractions such as construction and demolition waste) LAPC Local Air Pollution Control; LARAC Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee; LAS Landfill Allowance Scheme