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Recycling Animal and Human Dung Is the Key to Sustainable Farming
- 082349872349872 2y agoWhen I attend VC dog & pony shows, I often find myself reminded of the "New Idea" manure spreader ("pulverizes and spreads a load in three minutes!"): https://www.agriculture.com/thmb/prap3PqgiCmAX8bM2AFUH-kimX0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/NewIdeaSpreaderadvertisement_preview-a0ea13e910f64099a0ce5ea7d757bf55.jpg https://www.agriculture.com/thmb/prap3PqgiCmAX8bM2AFUH-kimX0...
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoHm. Not gonna work for the volume of agriculture necessary to support a civilization. Tootle around with such things in your backyard all you like; nobody who's part of feeding billions is going to do more than give lip service to this.
- carapace 2y agoIn rural and suburban contexts handling manure and converting it to fertilizer is a solved problem: Eisenia foetida (& co.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicomposting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicomposting and Vermicomposting Flush Toilets: > A simple, proven, low tech and open source approach for ecofriendly human waste disposal http://www.vermicompostingtoilets.net/ http://www.vermicompostingtoilets.net/