Those swell hot peppers you eat and its effect on the treatment of sewage sludge.

[NNadir]

3. It depends. If you have to go and find a way to do it, that can't be bad.

After that it's not your problem, but downstream it's a big problem apparently.

In our culture, unfortunately, we don't care very much about other people's problems.

It's a problem that people don't want to discuss, of course, an "unmentionable," but one with huge implications.

As for peppers and sewage, the problem can be addressed, which is the point of the paper. Whether it is addressed is another matter entirely.

Here's a book for popular consumption that I read some time ago and couldn't recommend more to people interested in this issue:

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters