OneVoice
03-29-2008, 08:19 PM
I thought I'd post this for family out here in hip-land......
Humanure composting is a safe way to eliminate the wastefull system of shitting and pissing in our drinking water and continuing to pollute this dwindling resource, while at the same time creating a safe, clean, and valuable resource\byproduct: compost thereby returning the nutrients back to the soil.
picked the following up from wikipedia
"Humanure" is a neologism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism) designating human excrement (feces and urine) that is recycled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling) via composting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting) for agricultural (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) or other purposes. The term was popularized by The Humanure Handbook (http://www.weblife.org/humanure/), a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_material) soil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil) amendment.
Humanure is not traditional sewage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage) that has been processed by waste-treatment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage_treatment) facilities, which may include waste from industrial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry) and other sources; rather, it is the combination of feces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces) and urine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine) with paper and additional carbon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon) material (such as sawdust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawdust)). By not disposing of feces and urine through the typical use of a flush toilet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet), nutrients can be returned to the soil instead of polluting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution) the water table.
Humanure is deemed safe for humans to use on crops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) as long as it has been composted properly. This means that thermophilic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophilic) decomposition of the humanure must heat it sufficiently to remove or destroy harmful pathogens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen), or enough time must have elapsed since fresh manure was added that biological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology) activity has killed most pathogens. To be safe for crops, a curing stage is often needed to allow a second mesophilic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophile) phase to reduce phytotoxins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytotoxin).
Humanure is different from night soil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil), which is raw human refuse spread on crops.
check out the Humanure Handbook for more information... available *free* online http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html
Humanure composting is a safe way to eliminate the wastefull system of shitting and pissing in our drinking water and continuing to pollute this dwindling resource, while at the same time creating a safe, clean, and valuable resource\byproduct: compost thereby returning the nutrients back to the soil.
picked the following up from wikipedia
"Humanure" is a neologism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism) designating human excrement (feces and urine) that is recycled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling) via composting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting) for agricultural (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) or other purposes. The term was popularized by The Humanure Handbook (http://www.weblife.org/humanure/), a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_material) soil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil) amendment.
Humanure is not traditional sewage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage) that has been processed by waste-treatment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage_treatment) facilities, which may include waste from industrial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry) and other sources; rather, it is the combination of feces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces) and urine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine) with paper and additional carbon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon) material (such as sawdust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawdust)). By not disposing of feces and urine through the typical use of a flush toilet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet), nutrients can be returned to the soil instead of polluting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution) the water table.
Humanure is deemed safe for humans to use on crops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture) as long as it has been composted properly. This means that thermophilic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophilic) decomposition of the humanure must heat it sufficiently to remove or destroy harmful pathogens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen), or enough time must have elapsed since fresh manure was added that biological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology) activity has killed most pathogens. To be safe for crops, a curing stage is often needed to allow a second mesophilic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophile) phase to reduce phytotoxins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytotoxin).
Humanure is different from night soil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil), which is raw human refuse spread on crops.
check out the Humanure Handbook for more information... available *free* online http://www.jenkinspublishing.com/humanure.html