After it's grown, the lettuce will be incinerated to ensure that no biological material is released onto Mars.
The three were hanged and they provided a new pyrotechnic public spectacle when their bodies were incinerated to prevent the survival of relics.
The processor derives enough energy from the faecal matter it incinerates to run the unit, with 150kw a day spare to export to the grid.
While only a small fraction of the composite waste is ground into powder for use as low grade filler or incinerated to recover energy, most of the composites end up in landfills.
The initiative is part of the brand's strategy to raise the quantity of recycled material in its new cars, particularly bumpers, which previously were incinerated to recover thermal energy, with no material retained.
Residual waste might then be able to be re-used, recycled into new products, processed to generate energy (for example in anaerobic digestion for food waste) or incinerated to create greener energy.
Roots are not composted, but incinerated to avoid root knot nematode contamination to amended soils.
Currently the bagasse generated after sucrose extraction from sugarcane is incinerated to power the plant operation (Shi et al. 2012).
The material destined for the site would range from mops and protective clothing – much of it incinerated – to components from reactor cores, which will remain dangerously radioactive for many thousands of years.
"Thousands of unborn foetuses incinerated to heat UK hospitals," was the headline splashed across the country's papers.
