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.
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Chinese do it all the time.
Maybe. Or perhaps if the Spaniards didn’t slice & dice them they might have perished from eating eColi infected Maize.
Haven’t people known not to do this for thousands of years?
It is very dangerous to do this. Hard to believe someone would tell people this is okay.
Milwaukee poop in a bag.
Untreated, it will contain various pathogens. Properly treated (sterilized) it's definitely safe for use as lawn fertilizer.
Anyone been in VietNam knows that wonderful smell of this being used for crops.
Seeing them in the field rolling up a trouser leg and squatting right there warns you off eating local.
Just like North Korea, ya’ll are gonna have a night-soil delivery quota every week.
If dog poop isn’t good to use why would human poop be acceptable?
Fresh or partially decomposed human manure would be risky. Having it totally breakdown and aged with composting would be the way to go.
Not according to my Parasitology professor.
***Fertiliser made from human faeces and urine is safe to use***
It has been used as “Night Soil” for thousands of years throughout the world as has Cow, Horse, chicken and hog manure.
E-COLI problems have almost always been traced to farm workers refusing to use the porta potties provided.
They drop trou & go wherever they please-—and have for YEARS.
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You get human manure from sewage systems, where lots of other stuff, including toxic chemicals, gets tossed.
Using untreated human fecal sludge is dangerous. More of a 3rd world practice.
Many City water systems ‘recycle’ the water. It goes down your toilet, gets scrubbed and cleaned (except those pesky pharma’s) and then comes out your tap for drinking and cooking.
Anyone remember when scientists said uranium treated food seeds were safe in the fifties.
Same reason it’s not safe to use dog poop -— most humans are meat eaters, so it rots in a more stinky way. Now if we were all vegans... (Apparently, bugs don’t count.)
Golf courses across America have been using secondary treated waste water (grey water) for decades to irrigate and fertilize the fairways and greens. Works great, but I wouldn’t advise anyone to lick the golf ball after a round.
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