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“It is hardly surprising that the malodorous field of garbology has not attained the popularity of rocket science, oil exploration, or brain surgery.”

Engineering Solid Waste Landfill Garbology

Book:The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future

Source: The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future

“The opening for solid waste is very small [in the space ship]. It's not toilet-bowl size. And aim is critical. To be honest with you, you don't know where your asshole is pointing within a small circumference.”

Knows Space Honest Waste Aim Size Critical Opening Ships Being Honest Bowls Pointing Toilets Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“NASA's training philosophy is "no surprises." So what they did is put a simulator on Earth where it looks exactly the same as a shuttle toilet and they put a camera down in the bottom of the opening for solid-waste collection, with a light that basically illuminates your asshole.”

Looks Philosophy Light Earth Waste Training Cameras Surprise Bottom Opening Collections Toilets Nasa Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”

Ifs Giving Earth Fall Wish Stars Waste Astronaut Dump Overboard Solid Waste

Author:Mike Mullane

“Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.”

Problem Crazy Communication Internet Cost Waste News Plant Newspapers Instant Print Truck Fractions Obsolete Old You Electronic Communication Solid Waste Waste Disposal

Author:Ted Turner

“"Solid wastes" are the discarded leftovers of our advanced consumer society. This growing mountain of garbage and trash represents not only an attitude of indifference toward valuable natural resources, but also a serious economic and public health problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977

“Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.”

Faces Source Waste Approach Management Reduction Recycling Solid Waste

Author:William Rathje