But the point isn't that these things don't exist, it's that they aren't the norm. We do a lot of really obviously stupid things, even when better options are right in front of us.
>>Before municipal sewer systems, excreta piled up in the privies of people’s homes—essentially a deep hole in the ground...
When the privies were eventually filled, that’s when the night soil men were called in.
This period in U.S/U.K history is repeating itself in the developing world as the urban population explodes.
Surprisingly first-word Japan still has about 30% of it's population unconnected to a sewer. For those folks human waste collection (with vacuum trucks) is still a thing.
http://www.jsanic.org/inasia/japanhistoryx.html
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 34.1 ms ] threadWe have been and continue to be so stupid.
(The thing that gets me is that refrigerators open like cabinets rather than chests of drawers.)
Compare to e.g. ice cream freezers https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ice+cream+freezer&atb=v60-1...
But the point isn't that these things don't exist, it's that they aren't the norm. We do a lot of really obviously stupid things, even when better options are right in front of us.
This period in U.S/U.K history is repeating itself in the developing world as the urban population explodes.
Africa's booming cities face a severe toilet crisis https://apnews.com/article/c225ff70420846489892ea206ecca6d1
One innovation from Uganda: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/feces-poop-fuel-uga...
Surprisingly first-word Japan still has about 30% of it's population unconnected to a sewer. For those folks human waste collection (with vacuum trucks) is still a thing. http://www.jsanic.org/inasia/japanhistoryx.html