Can you discuss Nutrient Recycling???

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Answer 1

Nutrient Recycling, in a simple layman's term, is known as waste management. A lot of natural "waste" is often full of nutrients which can be converted to nutrients via recycling.

A primitive example, perhaps, is the use of manure as natural fertilizer in an ecological manner. Think of a cycle which starts with Animal waste or manure, used as fertilizer. This becomes nutrient for plants and crops, which become nutrients for live stocks, which turn into meat, poultry, eggs, etc, which turn into nutrients for human beings. The cycle continues with how we treat the human waste later on, etc.

Same can we said of the way we recycle our water.

These are simple explanations for Nutrient Recycling. However, there are many other more complicated and scientific forms too.

One such example is the use of human waste in space. Astronauts on long missions, or those living and working in the Space lab, can recycle their body waste to produce potable water for use in bathrooms.

Today we are cleaning up lakes by introducing living algae, which can purify the water and live on recycled dead plankton cells. There are many such examples of this process in our homes and outside of our homes. Some are very simple and natural, others require a more intricate human involvement.

I hope the above gives you a small glimpse into the wonderful world of nutrient recycling.