Piss_Poor

This is the story of an ingenious solution for poverty alleviation using human urine and faeces! See it to believe it...

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News & Politics

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• Urine
• Agriculture
• Uganda
• EcoSan
• Ecological
• Sanitation
• innovations

[jcjenkins01]

The problem with separating urine and adding ash is that both of these practices strongly discourage composting. Try a humanure toilet system, which renders the excrement hygienically safe via composting, is odor and fly free, requires no urine separation, costs practically nothing, and is environmentally friendly. And it yields safe, sweet-smelling, pathogen free compost for food production.

[pork4allah]

Don't laugh. The way our US economy is going we won't be able to afford fertilizer either. The NWO may prevent us from buying ammonia nitrate anyway.

[MrMaypole14]

That's why people (most men) and dogs pee on trees!

[justicerobbie67]

@pork4allah good point there ? here in washington state gas prices are high. $ 3.99 a gallion

or just  say $ 4.00. every thing is going up in price ?

[FishyMoe]

@ScopedOUT2 hmmm I wonder if added the ash helps? Ash is high in ph, almost to the point that its uninhabitable by microbes (I think?!). Def helps with the smell in any case.

[ScopedOUT2]

@Crunchy68 Thanks for the info. However, I said that because there was a composting toilet video from Australia and they said they rotate their bins for up to 1 year to make sure any and all pathogens are dead before they recycle it back into the soil.

[Crunchy68]

@ScopedOUT2 There may be pathogens in feces if the person was sick, but urine is sterile as it leaves the human body. Also, if the person was NOT sick, there are not necessarily any dangerous pathogens in the feces. Either way, proper composting would eliminate any risk of pathogens. I just wish this video had explained whether this is what they were doing.

[Crunchy68]

This video shows that urine (which is sterile as it leaves the body) makes a good fertilizer. It is safe to use. What is being done with the feces, though? If properly composted that could also be a fertilizer resource. Left as a waste product, it can be a terrible health hazard. How does the ash affect its compostability? The video showed the girl sitting on the odor-free bags of feces, but did not explain how those bags were dealt with long-term.

[ScopedOUT2]

This is actually a very dangerous way to grow food. The pathogens in the urine and waste need to be killed, else they get in the food system.

[PhenixRising1171]

A friend of mine tried to tell me that this was a great idea. I tried to send her your handbook but she didn't want to read it. People are so caught up on degrees...