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> Human and animal waste is compostable but only at industrial scale. Not true! Plenty of people use composting toilets, for example people without plumbing (e
by mahogany 3y ago
> Human and animal waste is compostable but only at industrial scale.
Not true! Plenty of people use composting toilets, for example people without plumbing (e.g. off grid houses) or homesteaders that embrace a re-use philosophy. You can do it at home - it's not that hard and it doesn't even smell if done right. Completely safe to use for trees and decorative plants if you keep it separate, but some people mix all their compost together and use it for everything. (If you want do the latter, you should probably read a little bit of compost literature first.)
- yardie 3y agoThere are a lot of things that have to go right to go from human waste to farm to table. Almost no one is doing it at the individual level. Almost no one trusts a random individual to give them human compost. Of the few homesteaders I know they will happily use the byproduct from their compost toilet in the flower garden but weren't ready to use it in their vegetable garden. I guess they wanted it to pass through a few cows and goats first. They happily used the manure from cows that ate the grass that was fertilized from the human manure.