People aboard also reported overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
Human waste is being turned into energy in a multimillion-pound project in Lancashire.
The team's solution is a clever one, if not especially pretty: human waste.
Humanure toilets use the methane released by human waste to create power that is converted into saleable products, such as electricity.
It's all pretty heady stuff, which is why we're also gonna take a quick detour to the world of human waste.
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"This is human waste, " said Lori Dinkin of the Valley Villagers Homeowners Association in an interview with the suburban Daily News newspaper.
Some human waste was also dumped near a river outside the camp.
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, floodwaters ran freely through the sweltering, pitch-black hospital, carrying human waste through its corridors, Pou told Newsweek.
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"There's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing -- and in the state rooms, " he said.
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When New York is hit by heavy rain, some human waste is run into the river untreated as "combined sewer overflows, " Waldman said.
Gaza's only fresh source of water is too dangerous to drink because of contamination by fertiliser and human waste, a new report says.
"There's human waste all over the floor in some of the bathrooms and they're overflowing -- and in the state rooms, " he said last week.
The vessel was carrying more than 4, 200 people, including 3, 100 passengers, and conditions became unsanitary as human waste overflowed into public spaces on the ship.
Crew member Sachin Sharma of India said workers had no problems with being thrust into the icky job of handling the red bags filled with human waste.
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The city's sewage system was so overwhelmed that human waste, sent straight into the water around New York, decayed on the river floor and choked out most life.
DNA-fingerprinting techniques to distinguish human waste from the non-human variety.
The apparatus which recycles human waste and turns "yesterday's coffee into into tomorrow's coffee needs frequent maintenance and would likely not survive years of continuous duty on Mars", he says.
More than where to go to the bathroom, how to dispose of human waste is, as Auerbach points out, a primary reason that no one touches the issue of toilets.
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Meanwhile, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have invented a new toilet that turns human waste into electricity while reducing the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 percent.
In February this year, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, with passengers reporting overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
It faces a class-action lawsuit related to the Triumph's last cruise, when passengers reported that food was scarce, cruise goers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning, toilets overflowed and human waste ran down the walls in some parts of the ship.
The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.
Atlantis is also carrying up to a million microscopic worms as part of an experiment to help scientists understand why human muscles waste away in zero gravity.
The team is also looking to see if the bacteria can convert any other products into fuel, such as human or animal waste.
Thanks to the solar heater, a shower is a daily possibility, and the biogas digester -- which converts human and pig waste to a clean gas that can be pressurized -- has enabled cooking and lighting.
Reform-minded conservatives have the resolve and the record to confront and end this tragic waste of human potential.
Ashoka Fellows work on the hardest problems in society from human trafficking to medical waste to saving orangutans.
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That's at first glance a visible positive, but since at least two of the Big Three are already on taxpayer life support, won't our economy suffer over the long term due to the waste of human, financial and physical capital on economic activity that private investors will no longer fund?
The harbor was filthy, billowing with waste, both human and industrial.
The World Conference on Human Rights recognizes that illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous substances and waste potentially constitutes a serious threat to the human rights to life and health of everyone.
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