Gorilla

Posted on 31st August 2008

An extract from Chapter Three, in the Sunday Telegraph. It includes pictures of the Inax advertising gorilla (in the print version at least) which I never managed to find but I obviously didn’t look very hard because here it is and on reflection, much better than TOTO’s. Then again, they’re equally insane.

Inax gorilla

Toto’s crazy rock chick

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Fields

[29th August 2008]

An extract from my book in today's Guardian, about whether using sewage sludge on farmland is a good idea or dangerous. I don't know. But I do ...

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Sixty-eight percent of Britain’s sewage sludge ends up fertilizing farmland. Prudent recycling or dangerous folly?

[29th August 2008]

It is my first and last day at sewage school. The premises are nothing much to look at, consisting of a Portakabin in the car park of Barston, ...

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Fields

[28th August 2008]

An extract in today's Guardian, updated for the UK. Which uses one of my favourite pictures in the book, though for some reason in black and white.

Clean

[27th August 2008]

I once met a wastewater treatment expert, at a wastewater treatment conference, whose name is Les. He works for a utility in the north of England. He had ...

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Kibera

[25th August 2008]

I haven't been to Kibera, an enormous slum in Nairobi, but I know that most people's sanitation methods there consist of helicopter or flying toilets, which consist of ...

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Crops

[25th August 2008]

A bit belatedly, here is a story from the Mail on Sunday about how sewage is being used to fertilize crops for human consumption. Maybe because it ...

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