Resource Conservation and Recovery - A Worldwide Call to Action

J. P. Nicholson
1993 Journal American Society of Mining and Reclamation  
The World Health Organization reports that over 14,000 children die daily, mostly from malnutrition. Concurrently, the United States of America wastes ovel' 200,000,000 tons annually of bio-organic materials, such as domestic wastewater sludge, food processing wastes, yard wastes, animal manures, etc. Moreover, an additional 50,000,000 tons of alkaline by-products are wasted annually. Our worldwide challenge must be to convert natural waste resources into safe, valuable, and environmentally
more » ... ndly products, to be used as components in sustainable food production.
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