Let's end the week with something a little fun (at least for me).
The idea is to use pigs to recycle the organic waste in garbage as landfills
are filling up and finding places for new ones is getting harder. This
idea is not new, but it has merits.
Idea: The Coptic Christians in Egypt and some farmers in
the United States use pigs to recycle garbage. In Egypt, the pigs feed
in/on the food and organic waste in landfills which reduces their size as the
people harvest the trash for goods they can refurbish and sell. Farmers
in the United States take food and other waste from restaurants in the cities
and towns to feed their pigs (and sometimes other animals as well). So this is
basically using the pig to help reduce organic waste rather than burn it, or
use some other expensive process to recycle and take care of garbage.
Benefits: This reduces the amount of food waste that
ends up in landfills which makes them less likely to be a hot bed for diseases
and bacteria from rotting food. Not to mention that food waste produces
noxious gases that once concentrated can harm the environment around them,
which may even be cities and towns nearby. In addition, Rodent problems
are also reduced as they have less to feed on as well. Pigs in this case
eat the organic matter in landfills and similar dumps which these rodents
normally would feed upon. If you study biology, more food means higher
populations of animals, while less food means lower populations. So
cities/towns with rodent problems could possibly see a reduction of the rodent
population.
This also aids in recycling other
materials. By letting the pigs eat their fill, it becomes a little easier
for machines/people to pick out the other recyclable materials such as metals,
plastics and rubbers. On top of this, pigs feces can then be used as
fertilizer for crops and even used as part of the landfill to cover up the
items that could not be recycled or are better off covered (feces properly
dried does not smell, or generate new bacteria making it safer than rotting
food). Also, let us not forget, pigs getting fat means more bacon for us.
:)
Conclusion: This is a more natural means of
cleansing food and other organic waste from trash. It immediately gets
recycled and it benefits farmers because they then have access to cheap food
for their animals (namely the pig). An already useful idea, it can be
expanded to other animals depending on the waste collected and spring up a
brand new industry of refuse sorting (because pigs are not allowed to eat bacon
for obvious reasons). A cheap method to a growing problem of not knowing
where to dump all our garbage.
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