ENV DES 4C Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Novel Ecosystem, Biosphere 2, Human Waste
2 Apr 2019
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Infrastructure transfer nutrients: synthetic fertilizers, systems no longer designed to return nutrients (except on sm scale, pre industrial culture, most products = biodegradable, exception: metals, early technical nutrients, but valuable so melted and reused. Industrialization advanced no longer biodegradable products: but great depression reuses, wwii reuse, then cheaper materials/new synthetics post war , cheaper to make new materials than recycle, discard not repair or resell. Monstrous hybrids (mh"s: valuable food for mind and nature contaminated/wasted/lost, mh"s combo of bio and tech materials can"t b salvaged, ex. leather shoe, use synthetic (not vegetable) tanning, rubber sole. World of 2 metabolisms: mass (earth, energy (sun, nothing goes in or out of planetary system except heat and meteorite, system is closed, elements are valuable and finite. F: x concept of waste design things w/ understanding that waste doesn"t exist, so products can be food for biological cycles or technical cycles, bio nutrients not to be fed to tech metabolism (and visa versa)
