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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.
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 ...
Human feces photographed in a toilet, shortly after defecation.. Human feces (American English) or faeces (British English), commonly and in medical literature more often called stool, [1] are the solid or semisolid remains of food that could not be digested or absorbed in the small intestine of humans, but has been further broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
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.
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.
Stool is a common term in reference to human feces. For example, in medicine, to diagnose the presence or absence of a medical condition, a stool sample sometimes is requested for testing purposes. [33] The term bowel movement(s) (with each movement a defecation event) is also common in health care.
Waste is produced by human activity, for example, the extraction and processing of raw materials. [3] Waste management is intended to reduce the adverse effects of waste on human health, the environment, planetary resources, and aesthetics.
Waste is produced by human activity, for example, the extraction and processing of raw materials. [38] Waste management is intended to reduce the adverse effects of waste on human health, the environment, planetary resources, and aesthetics.