Presented by Murray R Hall, PhD Candidate, Geography Planning and Environmental Management, UQ and Research Scientist, CSIRO
Some 300 years ago Jonathan Swift parodied resource recovery from sewage. Gulliver, in his travels to the Island of Laputa, met the Professor at the Grand Academy who sought to ‘reduce human Excrement to its original Food, by separating the several Parts, removing the Tincture which it receives from the Gall, making the Odour exhale, and scumming off the Saliva’ (Swift 2003) p168.