Category: Sewers

• Encapsulating all we’ve focussed on over the past 18 months… Poop Potential! BBC March 2021

  Watch on BBC i-player!

  markhendriksen

  Mar 29, 2021

  #3Ps, #Methane, Anaerobic Digesters, Biogas, Biosolids, Children’s Books, Energy Renewables, Farming, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Manure, Sanitation, Sewage, Sewers, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Water

• Toilet Paper (from trees) is back in the Headlines. ‘Is Wiping our Bottoms Wiping out Forests?’

  

  Toilet Paper: It’s not (as the panic buying highlighted) about shortage. It’s about sustainability. When you wipe your bottom you may be unintentionally wiping out forests. In last week’s post we wrote about supporting renewable energy that protects our world. The focus was on Biogas as a sustainable energy source, using cattle poop mixed with…

  markhendriksen

  Jul 3, 2020

  #3Ps, #Childrens Books, 3Ps, Animal Waste, Children’s Books, Greenhouse Gases, Loos and No. 2s, Manure, Sanitation, Sewers, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Water

  #Amazon, #bamboo, #Biodiversity, #Biogas, #China, #Communities, #David and Goliath, #Deforestation, #Eco Friendly, #Eco-System, #environment, #Forests, #NRDC, #Pandas, #Plastics, #Shelley Vinyard, #Sustainability, #tissue, #Tissue World Magazine, #toilet paper, #trees, #Water, #Wet Wipes, #WHO, #Wildlife

• London, as so many cities have done for millennia, uses its river for waste. In 1858 disease and ‘The Great Stink’ led to Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s super-sewer for 4 million people.

  

  150 years later the population is now closer to 10 million. This is what’s happening… Forward Thinking BC. To get a handle on how advanced the thinking was on ‘waste management’ thousands of years ago, the Mesopotamians had already figured clay sewer pipes around c.4000 BC. Utilised to remove wastewater, and capture rainwater in wells. But,…

  markhendriksen

  Jun 18, 2020

  3Ps, Children’s Books, Human Waste, Loos and No. 2s, Sanitation, Sewage, Sewers, toilet paper, Toilets & Sanitation, Toilets Poop & Sanitation, Uncategorized, Water

  #bacteria, #balzagette, #civilisation, #combined sewer flow, #Disease, #London, #rainwater, #river thames, #runoff, #sanitation, #sewage, #sewers, #sir joseph bazalgette, #stormwater, #tideway, #treatment works