Posted on 09/27/2017 5:59:22 AM PDT by bgill
The bio-solids have become particularly important this year. According to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, Australia experienced its hottest winter on record. That, coupled with frequent frosts, have made it difficult for farmers to grow their crops.
But the sewage sludge is more than a simple fertilizer. It's also good for the environment. That's because plant operators are able to make use of an often-ignored waste product.
"We beneficially reuse 100 percent of the bio solids that we generate every year, so that's about 180,000 tons of solid matter," said Gavin Landers of Sydney Water.
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Natural over synthetic should be better but what about all the drugs humans put in their bodies?
People have been using human waste as fertilizer since agriculture began.
Mind the parasitic worms.
The Asians have been doing this for eons. Just make sure the foods are thoroughly washed in chlorine before you ingest them.
It should to be well aged. Fresh crap is what caused lettuce and other salad vegetables to give folks e coli infections. Manure of any type spread in the fall with a fall cover crop tends to eliminate those infections.
Exactly! Guess some reporter, foreign to the ways of farming, thought they had a good story. Human fertilizer has indeed been used “forever”.
Farmers use hog crap a lot... they have these giant barns that are fully automated with over 1000 hogs. The crap runs down the holes in the concrete floor and gets collected underneath and big pumper trucks pump it out and spray it on the fields...
“Fresh crap is what caused lettuce and other salad vegetables to give folks e coli infections.”
Really. Driving by great expanses of crops in fields, you just don’t see toilets of any kind. Makes you wonder...
Yup, there is a fancy name for it..its called waste management
Ditto. We had to do this when living in Japan in the '60s, though it hasn't been true there for a long time now.
I remember reading about a man in FL who went to the local treatment plant and brought home several trash barrels of the stuff and scattered it on his sickly-looking yard. His lawn did green up...with about a hundred thousand tomato plants!
Lots of farmers do not use this anymore because of the salt buildup in soil. The spread of diseases rules out this for growing food crops for humans especially in root crops like carrots.
Neighbor covered his entire yard in sludge and new grass seed. It stunk mildly for a few weeks and then produced a beautiful lawn (which nobody stepped on). Don’t know if it was aging or new grass growing that took the smell away but we asked him to please not use sludge again.
Sewage sludge as fertilizer is nothing new, but If you ask any big food company, you know, the famous brands who are all about “wholesomeness” and “wellness” - they all forbid farmers who supply them to use sewer sludge.
its because a lot of other chemicals and metals, besides just human waste, go down household drains.
So it really depends then on your source of human poop
We lived in Yokohama in the 1950s-1961.
I remember the arrival of a stack of honey buckets overnight would signal a pumper campaign was about to start...
A small family farm. Livestock living close together and intermixed like pigs and chickens and humans, you have a veritable petri dish to breed exotic strains of flu and other diseases.
We stayed at a lovely inn in Midway, Utah some years back that was situated next to some big crop fields. The weekend prior to our stay they held a beautiful wedding for some young bride and groom. You can guess what the farmer put down on his field right before the wedding! It was still a bit “fresh and earthy” smelling when we arrived.
Finally, a practical application of Democrats and Vichy Republicans...
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