[kattracks]

Dry toilet advocates claim the devices have advantages but concede there is the issue of routine emptying of excrement from the toilets.

Maybe thee environmentalists can start an organization composed of volunteers from their ranks to do the emptying. It shouldn't really bother them, they are used to shoveling bulls... um, nevermind.

[B Knotts]

"It's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. You are talking about all kinds of bacterial issues; human manure has human pathogens in it." Avery countered.

The fact that these eco-nuts propose using human fecal matter as fertilizer shows just how misiniformed they are. They should be ignored as the hysterical, insane fools that they are.

[Kenton]

I used to have something like this at my deer camp, but we called it an "outhouse".

[gdc61]

i am looking into different systems for property i have. sandmound,drycompost,ect. good post. will read later tks.

[Publius6961]

All right that does it.
There is a limit to the tolerance of stupidity.

When these retards start taking themselves this seriously, it's time to slap them down

[aShepard]

When up in the mountains outside of Seattle last year, we watched a large truck suck up the contents of the cesspool at a park rest station. In large letters on the side of the tank truck:

"We're number one in the number two business"

Then, when boating in the islands in Puget Sound, we saw the boating honey wagon named Pfecal Phish,
With the sign, "We take crap from anyone"

Them folks out there have a sense of humor.

[cinFLA]

A growing number of environmentalists are now advocating the expanded use of compost or dry toilets worldwide to combat what they see as an international water crisis.

These guys have obviously NOT traveled overseas very much!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[Billthedrill]

"It's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. You are talking about all kinds of bacterial issues; human manure has human pathogens in it." Avery countered.

Yes, it certainly is dangerous. I have lived in two countries now where the use of "night-soil" as fertilizer is common. It's hard enough on the natives, who are more or less accustomed to the immune system challenge that regular ingestion of human pathogens constitutes. It's sheer death - I mean literally - on foreigners for whom many of these pathogens are new.

Of course, if you don't mind washing all your fruits and vegetables in bleach-water, it isn't a big problem, but you'd better not miss anything.

Nor is the problem restricted to "bacterial." Unicellular and multicellular parasites and viruses are also in this toxic brew. And this breezy "properly prepared" qualification covers a multitude of sins - you do get sick and the enviro know-it-alls retreat to a "well, the compost wasn't properly prepared" defense, which is fine if it isn't you running a 103 degree fever and puking your guts out...

[bedolido]

we should just let it run into the streets like some 3rd world countries do.

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

I'm just going to bring one of these with me wherever I go.... ;^)

[Stand_Up]

http://www.thecanteen.com/crapper.jpg

[honeygrl]

I visited an island off the coast of Honduras twice on mission trips and many of the houses there were built out over the water and the toilets were simply holes over the ocean water.. makes me really look forward to going to the beach this weekend.......


Being splashed by fish beneath you while you go potty is kinda weird but I guess it might be fun for guys who like "target practice"

[hattend]

A waterless dry toilet, which generally costs about $2,000, collects human urine and feces and requires emptying by humans on a regular basis. Advocates claim the resulting matter can then be composted and used as fertilizer for food crops.

Then we can be just like the 3rd worlders! Progress!

I would hate to live next door to a person composting their own crap...it would be worse than living next to a pig farm.

[hedgetrimmer]

Advocates claim the resulting matter can then be composted and used as fertilizer for food crops.

What a great way to spread SARS. I'll bet Santa Cruz county CA is the first county to require all housing convert to composting toilets.

[Manic_Episode]

I'd pi$$ in the sink, but it's full of dirty dishes.

[r9etb]

Apparently the nice people using this article have forgotten where cholera.

These dumbasses come from a place where disease is rare and generally not deadly. They have lost sight of what it can do in places where sanitation is not available -- and now they're trying to make it worse.

Dumbasses.

[E Rocc]

Is "Friends of Cholera" one of the sponsors of this conference?

-Eric

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[RightWhale]

for North America, the figure is 100 percent

*sniff* Alaska will miss being part of North America.

[Ignatz]

Jeez! Their basic premise is a sham! Water doesn't just "disappear", it is recycled, both in nature and in man-made cities.

In most cities, when a toilet is flushed the water and contaminants flow through the sewer system to a processing plant. At the plant, the contaminants are removed and the newly-cleaned water is returned to the environment. There the natural cycles of evaporation and rainfall will take place.

What a bunch of sick, lying, socialist, scat-eaters!