意大利变废为宝 创建粪便陶艺博物馆 Italy is a country famed for its world-class clay pottery. But now curators* of the Museo Della Merda have come up with a new kind of crockery*. They’ve invented “Merdacotta” — a type of baked clay made from terracotta* and cow manure*. Founded by Italian farmer Gianantonio Locatelli, the museum takes up the ground floor of a medieval* castle in the village of Castelbosco near the city of Piacenza, and boasts 100,000 kg of waste. Over his various farms, 3,500 cattle produce 55,000 kg of milk a day to make Grana Padano, a hard cheese comparable to Parmesan*. They also generate 150,000 kg of waste. Left-over faeces* is combined with Tuscan clay to make “Merdacotta” bricks, hexagonal* and rectangular* tiles, flowerpots, plates or jars. The museum also boasts artworks, from paintings in liquid excrement*, to an extract from Luis Bunuel’s film “The Phantom of Liberty.” “Excrement is seen as something vulgar, nauseating*, as the most ignoble matter,” said Locatelli, who intends to “rehabilitate* the word and transform opinions of it across the board.” The rest of the excrement is collected in stool digesters, immense vats where bacteria* transforms the manure into methane*. The methane is then burned to produce electricity, which is sold by the farm. The daily faeces output produces three Megawatts an hour, enough to turn on the lights of a village of 3,000 to 4,000 people. (SD-Agencies) |