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Using dust to track rubbish
US researchers are hoping to eventually use smart dust technology to track household rubbish and e-waste.
At the moment the smallest tracking device is a tag, about the size…
Category: Communications waste
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The Berlin Wall and Cold War rubbish agreements
During the Cold War, West Berlin was completely surrounded by East Germany. The Berlin Wall sealed the city...and its waste.
While food and supplies could be transported in from West…
Category: Government waste
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The Philosopher's Stone, urine and serendipity
Serendipity is the accidental discovery of something useful whilst looking for something else. And this is exactly what happened to a 17th century German while experimenting with urine.
Hennig Brandt…
Category: Weird waste
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What's the study of faeces called and why study it?
The study of faeces (commonly known as pooh) is actually very important. It's scientific name is scatology or coprology. There is a hall of other words related to scatology and…
Category: Historical waste
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Limbs, gold, radioactive urine and medical waste
Apart from hospitals, our medical and related waste comes from a weird array of organizations.
Dentists, veterinary clinics, juvenile correctional centres, police cells, jails, local health centres, hospital linen…
Category: Human waste
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What's wrong with this photo?
In the bazaars of Balkh, Afghanistan, traders sit next to tables laid with carrots, apricots, almonds and melons. The carrots are much like carrots found all over the world, orange…
Category: Agricultural waste
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How to make a sausage (or how to make friends at a bar-b-que)
First, gain the guts or intestines of a slaughtered sheep, pig or cow and gently squeeze out as much of the pooh as possible.
Cut the guts into 50cm or…
Category: Agricultural waste
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