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krach dealer
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags baby Trump, cover, Donald Trump, golf, krach, Libé, Stack Exchange, Stand Up To Trump, stock market, tariffs, Trump administration, US economy on April 30, 2025 by xi'an
borderline call to voters’ registration
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags EU, European elections, European Parliament, French politics, golf, Insoumis, media, registration, voters suppression, votes on March 30, 2024 by xi'an
toilet issues [infographics]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags fertiliser, golf, infographics, Nature, nitrogen, toilet, urine diversion, water processing plant, water resources on August 25, 2022 by xi'an
As Western Europe is currently gasping under the worst drought in 500 years (?), a few sentences heard on the French public radio, about domestic grey water double-usage, as well as an email from>Nature about the above infographics winning a prize this year, made me re-ponder about the unsustainable way flush toilets process human waste, from wasting insane amounts of drinkable water to requiring energy-greedy processing plants. Not to mention the wipes-induced fatbergs. The above is one of several urine diversion toilets that divert it from the solids and, provided it is processed properly, turn it into a high quality fertilizer. Maybe the current water crisis will push towards new waste management policies, more sustainable.
In the same article, the attitude towards food grown with human fertilizers was shown as highest in France and at first I thought this was unsurprising given that wastewater here was recycled into the water cycle, but this is not at all the case. Only 1% is reused for irrigation (or wasted, since it is for golf courses!).
