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Beautiful lawn vs. faithful pet

...Dog waste chemistryUnderstanding why urine and feces can affect the lawn requires understanding the makeup of these waste products. The fundamental problem involves the concentration of nitrogen in the solid and liquid waste. Primarily in dogs...

http://juneauempire.com/green/2013-05-31/beautiful-lawn-vs-faithful-pet
Green
On the Trails: Dung - a resource for its producers

...slit through which the male feeds her and, eventually, the chicks. What a life!Humans have often used their own waste products, euphemistically called "night soil" to fertilize agricultural fields. This practice tends to foster the distribution...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-01-04/trails-dung-resource-its-producers
Outdoors
How to be an egg

...into the body cavity.The growing embryo produces waste products, of course, as it metabolizes the yolk proteins...basic options for disposing of nitrogen-containing waste products of metabolism: ammonia, urea, and uric acid. Ammonia...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2013-01-18/how-be-egg
Outdoors
Kidney donation brings 2 Anchorage women together

...failing for 10 years, in part due to a congenital condition that gave her abnormally high cholesterol. Kidneys filter waste products out of the blood. As her disease worsened, Teas, who is 63, grew more and more fatigued."You start feeling...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-10-08/kidney-donation-brings-2-anchorage-wome
State
Some odd vegetarians

...The tree vole lives in its own midden. Food twigs accumulate in a little platform, packed down by trampling and by waste products of digestion. As additional twigs pile up, the vole crawls under them to feed. The twigs are shoved around to make...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2011-09-30/some-odd-vegetarians
Outdoors
Thriving vs. dying: A simplistic approach to health

...good guys, the bad guys and the food they fight over. When the bacteria in our bowels becomes overpopulated, their waste products increase. The body attempts to protect itself by secreting mucus to line the sensitive intestinal cells. Damage...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-02-10/thriving-vs-dying-simplistic-approac
Outdoors
Thriving vs. dying: A simplistic approach to health

...good guys, the bad guys and the food they fight over. When the bacteria in our bowels becomes overpopulated, their waste products increase. The body attempts to protect itself by secreting mucus to line the sensitive intestinal cells. Damage...

http://juneauempire.com/blog-post/abby-lowell/2012-05-09/thriving-vs-dying-simpl
Recycling truck uses waste cooking oil

...everything. "The advantage is we're making use out of a waste product," Holstrom said. "With increased fuel prices, this...vegetable oil. First, the cost of shipping it as a waste product is eliminated. And second, less diesel is needed...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051506/sta_20060515014.shtml
News
Fairbanks borough to resume recycling

...landfill had been hauling paper back to the base. The Air Force announced last year it would no longer accept borough waste products because it had privatized solid waste collection. Its new contract with R&D Environmental did not cover the backhaul...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071805/sta_20050718010.shtml
News
Pressure on for pipeline fix

...lines; bacteria generally are flushed through the system and don't accumulate. The bacteria excreted a corrosive waste product, causing the leak, said company officials, who added that they did not fully understand what caused the buildup...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081406/sta_20060814014.shtml
News

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