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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Chickens ear bugs, fish, etc., are they not meat eaters?? Chicken poop is used daily in fertilizer for home gardening
Technically, milorganite is made from the bacteria that feed on sewer waste water.
I did say that apparently, bugs don’t count.
There are many smaller sewage treatment plants where the waste solids are fermented, releasing methane, which is used to power the plant, and breaking down many of the drugs and other contaminants. When finished fermenting, the waste is heated and dried, using the same methane, which kills any pathogens and breaks down more chemicals. The product is a safe and fairly effective fertilizer.
There’s a gulf of difference between human feces and sewage.
Sewage includes everything you flush down the toilet, including cleaning products and toilet paper plus everything that washes down the storm water because in many places sewage and storm water systems are combined.
They’re trying to get farmers to use the sludge from sewer treatment plants.
Brawndo has electrolytes that plants crave.
Because human pathogens spread easily through, you guessed it, human feces.
That’s one reason why diseases run wild in Asia because they use crap to fertilize their rice paddies.
My Pop was in Korea was saw this first hand.
Mexicans working picking think nothing about squatting in the field wiping with their hand and resume picking your favorite fruit or vegetables, especially the organic kind.
Hasn’t Milorganite been used for a long time? It”s a fertilizer made from sewerage.
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