Archive for March 2008
beware…cantaloupes?
Posted by: Anca on: March 25, 2008
There’s a nationwide outbreak of salmonella connected to tainted cantaloupe. “The melons grow on the ground, where they are likely to be contaminated with fertilizers and other bacteria. [...] The rough cantaloupe rind [...] provides easy lodging places for salmonella and other bacteria.” I always preferred watermelon and honeydo to cantaloupe.
toilets of the future and other things I learned at the wastewater treatment plant
Posted by: Anca on: March 23, 2008
It’s only a matter of time before everyone will have replaced standard toilets with composting toilets. In fact, the IslandWood School on nearby Bainbridge Island, WA, uses only composting toilets. These devices would reduce the work a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) has to do to the organic waste we flush away. At the WWTP, new [...]
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