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Human waste / produced by John Blake Associates Limited, for Channel 4.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sewage disposal.
- Sewage--Environmental aspects.
- Sewage.
- Waste products as fertilizer.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1993.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- An urgent environmental problem of our times is the disposal of human waste. The relationship between drinking water and waste effluents, disease and contaminants, is explained clearly in this challenging program. After showing a brief history of the Victorian sewage system, Human Waste stresses that now "prevention is more economical than treatment." One preventive solution is the waterless composting toilet, championed by Abby Rockefeller. Waste is transformed by bacterial action into an odorless, germ-free fertilizer. Other visionary alternatives to traditional waste management are shown, such as using plants and trees to remove toxic metals from water.
- Notes:
- Previously published as DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST: Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Third Prize, EarthPeace International Film Festival, 1993
- OCLC:
- 794307797
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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