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  • From: mdnagel@verizon.net
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Using Human Waste
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:31:58 -0500 (CDT)

Hasn't China been dumping "night soils" on their crops for centuries?  Their "solution" is to cook their vegetables (why stir fry came to be?)


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Jul 21, 2010 09:14:39 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>Several people on the list have mentioned the use of human waste for agricultural
>purposes. I'm interested in what peoples experience has been with this and what
>kinds of precautions people are taking to break the pathogen-human cycles in order
>to avoid disease transmission. The World health Organization has done a lot of work
>on this and their guidelines are available online.
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http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/wastewater/gsuww/en/index.html
>
>This appears to me to be one of the crucial linkages that will have to be established
>in a steady state economy. Nutrient recycling is a fundamental ecosystem function/service
>which must be integrated in the closed human-earth system. Of course pathogens have
>evolved to exploit this system and we have to assure a reasonable level of safety.
>
>
>Phil Bunch
>_



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