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From the article: "Windham County's pee-donations are collected by a lorry and driven to a large tank where the urine is pasteurised by heating it to 80C (176F)
by chakintosh 2y ago
From the article: "Windham County's pee-donations are collected by a lorry and driven to a large tank where the urine is pasteurised by heating it to 80C (176F) for 90 seconds. It is then stored in a pasteurised tank, ready to be sprayed on local farmland when the time is right to fertilise crops."
- reverendsteveii 2y agodoes pasteurization break down PFAs? They're chemicals, not microbes. My understanding is that pasteurization only kills microbes.
- moate 2y agoThe PFA's aren't largely concentrated in the urine/feces, they're in the sewage water (from people flushing/washing things down the drain/chemical runoff). If the issue was "people are so full of PFA's that their urine/feces contain so much they're contaminating the planet" the problem would be too far advanced, right? Like if your body was so radioactive that standing near you caused people to develop cancer, you probably shouldn't worry about getting cancer yourself, you're already fucked.
- reverendsteveii 2y agothat's not unfair, thank you for clarifying. though I will add that elsewhere in the thread we're having the exact conversation from your second paragraph but about prescription and...ahem...non-prescription drugs.