Presentations
Leveraging Bodily Waste for Sustainable Development
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Jeremy Guest
12:00pm
Center for Advanced Study
Levis Faculty Center--Music Room (208)
919 W. Illinois, Urbana
Event Description
Roughly 2.3 billion people lack access to basic sanitation, and more than half the world's bodily waste is not safely managed. To overcome this challenge, we can look to the resources in bodily waste as a means to generate revenue while also providing sanitation. In particular, nutrients for agriculture (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) can be recovered, making end users a source of individually derived renewable resources and part of local/regional nutrient cycles critical to development.
Jeremy Guest
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Beckman Fellow 2017-18