Posted on 01/19/2023 5:01:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Fertiliser made from human faeces and urine is safe to use in agriculture and has "huge potential" to replace 25% of current synthetic products in some countries, according to research.
The findings come as farmers continue to struggle with rising fertiliser costs due to a combination of climate change and the war in Ukraine.
Researchers screened human waste for 310 chemicals - including rubber additives, insect repellents and pharmaceuticals - and only found them in 6.5% of the samples examined, but still at low concentrations.
Scientists said low levels of the painkiller ibuprofen and mood-stabilising drug carbamazepine were found - but added that someone would have to eat more than 500,000 cabbage heads to accumulate a dose equal to one pill.
Author Franziska Hafner, a student at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, said products made from human urine and faeces "are viable and safe nitrogen fertilisers" and "did not show any risk regarding transmission of pathogens or pharmaceuticals".
The peer-reviewed research has been published in the journal Frontiers In Environmental Science and comes amid record-breaking food inflation, with many shoppers struggling with supermarket bills.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Tree growers have used biosolids as fertilizer for a long time. They also know not to use it in food production.
I have believed, right or wrong, that reclaimed water, biosolids and other improperly composted biomass materials are the culprits causing eColi, salmonella and other pathogens getting into the food supply on plant materials never affected in years past.
I would not knowingly consume food grown using human waste.
My college risk assessment thesis 23 or more years ago agrees with their conclusions. In fact, most Americans have no idea we already use sewage (biosolids) on crops for fertilizer.
There are safety limits that need to be met and soil types to consider, but we been using it for decades.
Only thing worse than feces is faeces!
” climate change and the war in Ukraine.” -— So the reason is due to globalists and leftists. They will use these excuses for anything they can!
And yet it’s a royal pain..and expensive putting in a compost toilet in your home?
I think I would try and find a better example than a tribe last seen about 1572, just sayinâ.
There is something which stinks about your proposition, but I just canât put my finger on it......
Just returned from the future. Scientists say that using human feces was a bad idea.
As a *former* physiologist, I would say it’s technically and epidemiologically sound science. But it has to be done right.
My brother worked at a sewage treatment facility for 40 years and one time I visited him at work. There was a building that had a slide coming out from the peak, like a barn, and there was this brown stuff (looked like dirt to me) sliding down into a dump truck. I asked and he said they treat the people poo with something (I forget), then sell it to fertilizer companies. He didn’t know what the fertilizer was used for. This was back in the late 70s.
“There is something which stinks about your proposition, but I just canât put my finger on it......”
Talk to your proctologist!
> say scientists
One of the most dangerous phrases.
Itâs Sky News- probably the way the Brits spell it.
“I think I would try and find a better example than a tribe last seen about 1572, just sayinâ.”
It wasn’t because of their farming methods that they ended. They would still be there teaching everyone else agriculture if they had not been bothered.
Itâs not just that, what about neutralizing all the prescription drugs that will be in there?
This is where my tagline comes in...
It won’t be long before the new “impossible” burgers will be made out of human feces and urine. “Beyond Impossible Burgers”. Idiots will be eating them up.
Lutheran Family Services brought in some Vietnamese mountain refugees to town and put them up in a group of apartments. They started gardens fertilized with night soil. Neighbors complained.
A great concern of the Truman administration when it ran Occupied Japan was the supply of ‘night soil’ according to a book written by Thomas Dewey.
“In New York, the reeking loads were sometimes carted off to country farms to be used as fertilizer. But more often they were hauled through the night to a designated pier and dumped into the Hudson or East Rivers (and sometimes mistakenly onto the private boats below), creating a stinking, festering shoreline. The waste would settle into the slips and city workers would periodically have to dredge the excrement so that boats could actually dock. In Washington, D.C., one of the cityâs dumping grounds was a field near the White House, where a marsh of Washingtonian waste putrefied under the presidentâs nose.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-american-cities-were-full-of-crap
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