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You can pasteurize poop. Granted it would be a pretty inglorious process, but it's not unheard of in certain communities. In my experience it's typically horse
by brnaftr361 4y ago
You can pasteurize poop. Granted it would be a pretty inglorious process, but it's not unheard of in certain communities. In my experience it's typically horse excrement which has an entirely different composition, but I imagine that could be remediated without much additional effort. Coconut coir, sphagnum moss, grass clippings.
I can't imagine why the process would be ineffectual (other than emitting smell loud enough to be heard for miles), but I'm no microbiologist.
- soperj 4y agoIf you're composting it properly, it doesn't really have any smell at all, except dirt. It's when you don't move it around, and it starts to compost anaerobically that it starts to produce methane, and then you've got a pile of stink on your hands.
- Pulcinella 4y agoI believe methane itself doesn’t really have much of a smell. It’s things produced alongside the methane like ammonia and certain other nitrogen compounds, sulfur compounds, and carboxylic acids (particularly short chain fatty-acids like acetic acid and butyric acid).
- thatcat 4y agoYou can use microwave device to sterilize it and test for harmful pathogens or total activity using respiration rate or total cfu count to confirm process
- bergenty 4y agoThis is very different than cow or horse poop. Herbivore poop doesn’t really stink and in many places it’s just mixed with water and lies in an open bit to compost.