SIBO, also known as blind loop syndrome, commonly occurs “when a circumstance — such as surgery or disease — slows the passage of food and waste products in the digestive tract.”

According to the 2021 lawsuit, Walmart allegedly disposed of aerosols cans, spray paints, rust removers, bleach, pesticides and over-the-counter drugs in regular trash bins, which are not permitted to receive such waste products.

For four years the father-of-two has been having dialysis, a procedure to remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood when the kidneys stop working properly.

And the primary waste product, called pomace, can be used as fertilizer, perhaps to grow new apple trees.

Singh and colleagues modified this process to instead use biomass from common waste products.