Sol Waste Management

[Julian-Dumitrascu]

If we’re quick to call things “waste”, we’ll wade waist deep in it. It seems we call things “waste” when they become less beneficial or rather costly to use.
Biological waste are the parts of an organism that return into the environment, usually when the organism sheds them: skin, hair, fluids, excrement, etc. Air, water, soil, and other organisms absorb and transform them. It seems no other species spends so much energy on managing their waste, because they move more than us. When we prevent other species from moving freely, we manage their waste, too.
We process and mix air, water, mineral materials, and biological materials into artefacts. As we use artefacts, they are influenced e.g. by other substances and their components become difficult to separate and reuse. The vast majority of modern products and materials seem difficult to reuse. We have scattered them across the world. One consumes huge amounts of energy when one tries to manage some of them. They reintegrate much more slowly into the environment.
We can discuss inputs and outputs of a human, a household, a community, a worksite, etc.
You can add any (part of a) topic. We can discuss it to your benefit.

1. Air

Thoughts about some simpler aspects. We breathe in and out. I don’t see anybody worrying about this. When indoors, we refresh the air from time to time. We carry out physical activities at least on some days, so that our breathing and the rest of our self stays healthy.
We can help bring and keep the quality of indoor air to a certain level.
We can help treat polluted air before releasing it into the environment.

2. Water

What results do you want?
We can agree on how your wastewater will be treated.
2.1 For communities that are not using a wastewater treatment plant, we can build and operate one.
2.2 People have been dumping many things into any body of water.
To the extent that you find it useful to keep or increase the quality of some water, we can help you do so.

3. Biological waste

3.1 Human waste

We can shed skin, hair, mucus, etc. daily. The wilder a place is, the easier it seems for biological waste to integrate into it. The larger one’s yard is, the easier it is to let such waste integrate e.g. into the soil. If one has isolated oneself from the environment e.g. by living in a block of flats, one tries to remove from the flat (!) surfaces anything that can clog, rot, stink, itch, etc. One also avoids leaving in one’s flat anything that is not desirable, e.g. waste.
We bin our waste. How many bins would we need to get the best results?
We could collect animal waste separately from vegetal waste.
We could fertilise soil e.g. with vegetal waste and excrement. Are we going to piss and shit into the bin with vegetables? Then we could come up with an easy way to pack this “salad” and take it to a bin outside our flat. This could save a lot of water. Sol could offer some bags that would be easy and safe to handle. For blocks without chutes, we can provide bins for every floor and personnel that would empty them often.

3.2 Vegetal waste

It seems that some households can absorb all plants they bring in.
We can carry away any plant rests.
It is useful to let them reintegrate into nature. For this:
a. we can provide information about how it is useful to sort them.
b. we can spread them on wild land in agreement with its owners.
c. we can spread them on land used for agriculture.
d. we can deliver some of them as fodder.
It’s useful to think about benefits for all beings or for all human beings.
To the extent that you seek benefits for yourself, e.g. as a household manager, we agree with you on how you repay us for such services. You might benefit by using products from the owners of the land that you fertilise. You would benefit one another with our help. To benefit ourselves, we negotiate payment from landowners, too. We can sell waste to the extent that it contributes to the creation of a product.
We help people keep the costs of waste under control. We’ve seeing that it is costly to let waste lie around or to move waste around because it is difficult to do anything with it.
We can help people sort waste early, so that it is easier to decide what to do with it and easier to do something with it. We can try to break the vicious circle that leads to waste heaping up in one’s yard.

3.3 Animal waste

What should be done with biological waste that rots more slowly?
3.3.1 Some butchers sell bones as fodder, so fewer bones reach households.
We could agree that some people bin bones separately, so that we deliver them to makers of e.g. glue and char.

4. Artefacts

We can help people reduce the amount of such waste.

4.1 Construction sites

People can renounce there pieces of wood, glass, (non)metallic materials, or plastic materials; chemical products, etc.
a. Some wood can be used, burnt, or left to rot.
b. When pieces of artificial materials are not reused, on what land are they going to be deposited how?
How much would you pay someone to take them away from your new building, process them, and put them on or into the ground so that they cause as little damage as possible?
Who agrees to have such waste deposited on their land?
It would ruin (!) farmland, so this is no option.
On which wild public or private land are we going to leave it?
It brings only costs to that land and its users.
c. It is very difficult to reuse chemical products and to treat chemical waste.
On what grounds (!) are we going to leave it?
The main parts of these discussions are similar for other materials and worksites.