The non-governmental organisation Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) claims that there is three tons of human excrement on Mount Everest between Camp 1 and the summit. The world’s tallest mountain is a massive toilet and something needs to be done about. SPCC was set up …
The Times reports on a University of Sheffield article describing research that they have done on using the poop of endangered animals to kill certain bacterial species including superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics and which cause diabetic foot ulcers. Apparently, diabetics can suffer from …
You didn’t realise, and neither did I, that whale excrement is so important to the oceans’ ecosystem. And of course, because humans have been mercilessly killing whales for the past century, the amounts of whale excrement have been reduced dramatically to the point where the …