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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Pet wastes....
  • Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 20:55:25 EDT

"It may have something to do with being meat eaters verses veg."

It has everything to do with that. Reprocessed plant material is benign. Much
of the world cooks with cow dung, or used to. All it is is matted grass and a
bit of microbial goo. The fire is pleasant smelling.

On the other hand, the aroma alone coming off fresh cat plop tells you
something just ain't right about the stuff. It's one step further down the
road from
mere dead meat. Treat it as toxic.

The two basic approaches wastewater treatment plants take with this kind of
product are to either chlorinate and then dechlorinate it before returning it
to the stream (because wastewater doesn't just disappear; it is always
redeposited in the environment) or to pass it through a strong UV bath.

Pet wastes, unfortunately, don't often get flushed down the toilet.
Collection problems dictate that they end up just going back into the
environment
untreated-- usually in plastic bags that end up in landfills. And purely as a
matter of convenience, I can't think of a much better place for them. The
mechanics
involved in a nationwide collection and decontamination effort would be
daunting.




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