Comments on: What a load of rubbish

By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:26:57 +0000

There is food, then water. I grew up in India too, and went through a water crisis. Water is still such a big issue in India. Now in the US, I cringe every time the sprinklers turn on my lawn. Do I really need to waste so much water on grass?
But food waste is worse. At least there is no good way to transport water between different countries.

By: crc

crc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:42:59 +0000

Just watched Jimmy Docherty’s Farming Heroes- a farm in Wales using tonnes of food waste and sawdust into fabulous compost! Last week it was Wissington sugar beet factory using CO2 capture to grow tomatoes in 27 acre greenhouse heated by waste heat from the sugar factory; even dirt from the beet was reused as aggregate!

By: crc

crc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:38:23 +0000

JP, echo here, about waste; my first impressions of the NHS relate to sense of awe at the waste of all kinds of resources.
Will need to dig up and update references to TDP- ‘thermolytic de-polymerisation’…an American company was to be literally burning any kind of waste to produce electricity…