[LMB] 2008 and Re: history of garbage (was squ/ick in some...)

[Paula Lieberman]

[several days of the last third of last month left to go through....

Hmm, I wonder, since Lois is GoH at the Worldcon in 2008, does that mean 
that there are likely to be a higher proportion of listies there than usual? 
It's not too early to start planning things, such as a special party in 
honor of the GoH.. although things like hotel forms usually come out around 
January of the year of the convention, with suite requests and such being 
made them or maybe a bit earlier, stating what type of suite's desired... 
decorations could include things like giant butterbugs like the one Suford 
Lewis wore to Gaylaxicon last year was it, refreshments of maple stuff (New 
England has maple syrup and maple sugar, sugaring occurs in early spring 
collecting maple sap and boiling it down into syrup.  In more concentrated 
form it become maple sugar...) and ?? ..

But, to get to the response to the below:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "anmar mirza" <anmar.mirza at gmail.com>


> On 8/24/06, Azalais Aranxta <tiamat at tsoft.com> wrote:

[snip]

> Actually, properly treated, it's not.  The problem comes in in that
> the average person does not know how to properly treat waste
> so pathogens are killed.  Small composting heaps do not have
> thorough enough heating/processing to ensure all pathogens
> are destroyed, but on a large scale it is very possible.  Up until
> the 70s when they realized that most industries were dumping toxic wastes
> that have bioaccumulation potentials into the waste stream,
> processed sludge from waste treatement plants was spread
> on fields and is an excellent fertilizer.

The Superfund sites that were in Woburn and Woburn/Wilmington got started as 
hazardous waste dumps in the 1600 when there were tanneries present which 
were dumping their wastes...  the tanneries were continuing to be there with 
hazardous waste into I think the second half of the 20th century.  There was 
a specific building on Main Street in Woburn I that gave off noxious odors, 
I don't remember much beyond that as I was a small child at the time.  That 
building though is long gone, and there is an apartment complex or condo 
there now... Woburn once was full of horticulture, the farms and fields 
though disappeared into housing developments and office parks, it's a 
different universe...

> Of course, most people are squicked by the thought, but then
> most people would be squicked by just about every detail on how
> their food is processed.
>
> Anmar, who tries very, very hard to avoid eating processed
> meats but has no problem butchering my own.