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One Man’s Trash – Poo is Valuable?

Jonathon

I found an article which says, in part:

Nothing goes away, matter simply changes form. Industry, agribusiness and our water infrastructure are all designed on a linear model, when we live in a cyclical system. How different things would be if we took into consideration the full life cycle of every resource and every element.

Modern toilets are one illustration of a forgetful, wasteful model. When cured correctly, human urine and feces can become a nutrient rich humus for growing food, or simply returned to the soil for positive impact. Instead, massive amounts of clean, potable water are used to flush them away, and massive amounts of energy and chemicals are used to prepare this sewage for dumping in waterways.

Dam Nation chronicles alternatives, from individual composting toilets to centralized collection systems.

Here are more resources about ecological sanitation:

-the dry composting toilet explained -how to construct a composting toilet -The Humanure Handbook online -companies that sell composting toilets: Envirolet and SunMar

This is good in theory- I’d like to see a true-cost business case / economic analysis. Would the required resources outweigh the benefit? Excluding time, I’d guess it’s a worthy change. I hope you do better but I’m not doing any work on this – I expect it would take too much time to research and make work properly. Should I give in to the voice of the status quo within?

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