Human waste given new meaning to ‘man made bricks’
Human waste has given a new meaning to ‘man-made’ bricks – after Leeds lab technicians devised a way of using it to build houses.
The technique, which was devised by Leeds University spin-out company Encos, turns sludge – a bi-product of human faeces – into carbon negative building bricks and breeze blocks.
Research shows that traditional building materials are responsible for around five per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
The process is currently being trialled and tested at Yorkshire Water’s sewage treatment works at Knostrop in south Leeds.
Jon Brigg, innovation development manager at Yorkshire Water, said: “We are always looking for ways in which we can make the best use of our waste to have a positive impact on our environment and this project is a great way to reuse incinerated sludge ash which has traditionally been sent to landfill.”
He added: “With new building regulations coming into force in the next few years, home builders will need to reduce the embedded carbon cost of all new homes – the bricks and blocks will provide a perfect alternative to traditional house bricks.”
The process involves sludge being incinerated and made into ‘ashes’, which are then mixed with vegetable oil binders to make the building materials.
By using incinerated sludge as a component, Yorkshire Water says it is also reducing the amount of waste it sends to landfill.
The bricks and blocks are carbon negative because the plants used to make the vegetable oil have absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere.
:lol:Hope they use these in any new building work on the houses of parliament.
Colorado Springs police seek runner who won’t stop pooping in front of a family’s house
By Rachel Chason
Her children were the first to catch the runner mid-poop, with her pants around her ankles, Cathy Budde said.
Immediately, they ran to get their mother.
“They are like, ‘There’s a lady taking a poop!’ So I come outside, and I’m like … ‘are you serious?’ ” Budde told KKTV.
She confronted the woman, asking, “Are you really taking a poop right here in front of my kids?”
“Yeah, sorry,'” the woman replied.
Has this woman sadly got genuine mental health issues (so give her a break) or does she just enjoy being punched ? .. if someone crapped on my front lawn I wouldn't punch them, I'd pick it up and throw it at them .. good luck filing an assault charge against me when it's your DNA tested poo mother hugger .. if she's a bit bonkers I feel sorry for her though and she'd deserve some kindnessHere's a news story for the ages:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...eing-sought-by-police/?utm_term=.5eb4191c25f1
Shocker! I did search for it, but I didn't think of it as a toilet issue so much as a fecal issueThe story already appeared in Toilet Talk.
Shocker! I did search for it, but I didn't think of it as a toilet issue so much as a fecal issue
Everybody was flung poo fighting — Carnoustie kids make mess of residential street
by Rob McLaren
October 1 2017, 11.58amUpdated: October 1 2017, 12.07pmNEXT POST
© DC Thomson
The 'poo fight' occurred near the entrance to Carnoustie House Grounds
Youngsters hurled bags of dog waste at each other in a fight in a quiet Carnoustie street.
Bags from a dog poo bin ended up bursting on roofs and cars in the middle of the night.
It has emerged that the fight occurred between a group of young teenagers near the gates to Carnoustie House Grounds at around 2.30am last month.
Last weekend bags of dog poo were thrown over children’s play equipment within the park.
But residents in the town have now spoken out about the earlier incident.
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Rob McLaren will never have to buy a drink at the Courier bar again after coming up with that headline.
Unfortunately it will prove to have been the apex of his career as a journalist, and will be followed by a long, slow slide to obscurity, alcoholism and death.
*Happy days are here again/The skies above are clear again...*
maximus otter
Is it some sort of a kinky thing to shit on someones property?
How is it pronounced if written phonetically? It is always great to be able to insult someone in another language.
Nice to know the word "cack" is the same in any language. Well, two languages.
Bless you!Welsh "cachu".
Wasn't Queen's Radio Gaga inspired by Roger Taylor's toddler son saying 'radio caca'?
Perhaps they fermenting it for Jerkum production, a hallucinogen. It's usually made from human feces.
I stand corrected Tribble. Better at science - math, poor speller however.(Jerkum is a plum cider. Jenkem is the mythical poop-drug)
The protagonist of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat rejoices in the name of Akaki Akakievich. Yes, it's the same root.Also, in Basque and Haitian Creole it's "kaka", Welsh "cachu".
There's web pages about everything nowadays.
Man, 75, uses ‘home-made pump’ to spray his poo through friend’s letterbox
Bradley Jolly Wednesday 30 May 2018 7:37 pm
Pensioner travels 200 miles to spray poo through man's door
A pensioner stored his own poo in a container for two months before shoving it through a friend’s letterbox in a bitter dispute. Geoffrey Holroyd-Doveton, 75, used a ‘home-made pump’ to spray the excrement into Donald Wicks’ home as a disgusting act of revenge. The former mates had fallen out as Holroyd-Doveton thought Mr Wicks had contributed to his recent divorce and ‘ruined his life’, a court heard. But the OAP travelled more than 160 miles from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, to Mr Wicks’ house in Braintree, Essex, with poo he had stored for two months and splattered it into the home. It caused £4,000 in damage.
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