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So you had a question about waste materials and agriculture.
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So i made a list of six things.
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I'm sure there's more things that we could list, though.
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One of the main factors is animal waste products in the form of manure, and those can give off toxins such as methane, nitrates, and phosphates.
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Methane is a greenhouse gas, which can give off or can cause heating of the plant.
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Nitrates and phosphates can cause damage in the water supply.
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The good thing about these products, though, is that we can make fertilizers out of them.
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So proper agricultural waste management will use that animal manure to actually make fertilizer.
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So we can reuse that for a plant, for fertilizer for plants.
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The second thing that i listed was animal respiration.
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We don't think about it, but when we have these very large cattle and pig feed lots, they give off a lot of carbon dioxide because of the animal respiration that the animals are breathing.
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So that can add to the greenhouse gases as well.
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The third is when we're planting crops, we are utilizing a small amount of that material.
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The rest of it is being discarded, and maybe it's being recycled and reused in some fashion, but a lot of plant material is not...
