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Why on earth are they not composting it, but instead putting in a landfill and locking it up? What a dumb idea.
by Maxion 2mo ago
Why on earth are they not composting it, but instead putting in a landfill and locking it up? What a dumb idea.
- namibj 2mo agoSalty.
- llbbdd 2mo agoI don't have much familiarity with composting or fish sauce production, but wouldn't the high salt content make it a bad fertilizer?
- FuriouslyAdrift 2mo agoSalt... it has lots and lots of salt in it. It's been sitting for 20+ years. It isn't going to "compost" any more than it already has.
- Maxion 2mo agoWell that makes a whole lot of sense.
- fsckboy 2mo agoit is sitting right next to the ocean, which is where all that salt came from, just put it back
- BenjiWiebe 2mo agoThe fish came from there too.
- jollyllama 2mo agoI bet you could grow some killer swiss chard with it.
- hluska 2mo agoEnvironment Canada’s testing found it ‘acutely lethal’. I’d consider composting an acutely lethal substance that is extremely high in salt to be the dumb idea. Canada actually has scientists. From reading through these comments, I know that’s a shock but we do, they test things and they follow the evidence before making recommendations. In fact, those test results from back in 2016 are even public. Just because this is news to you doesn’t mean it’s a new thing. Other cheaper solutions were looked into and they weren’t safe enough. It’s remarkably simple if you make yourself aware of everything involved. Salt in a compost though? How does that work?
- mythrwy 2mo agoA little salt in compost is fine. Too much is an issue. They actually sell salt based soil amendments for areas that have been depleted of minerals. (Sea-90 is one brand). It's very lightly applied. It could be composted and that would kill the smell, it's just getting the ratios right and you might need an additional nitrogen source, but Canada has a lot of wood chips for the carbon.
- inigyou 2mo agoI thought fish was full of nitrogen compounds and that's why it smells so bad
- mythrwy 2mo agoIt is yes. I failed to make the point clear. The process may need an additional nitrogen source depending on salt content of the fish sauce. Because the required N per volume of wood chips so it composts hotly may result in too much salt for the process if only fish sauce is used. In which case it could be diluted in an additional (low salt) nitrogen source. I don't know how much salt fish sauce actually has, just it could be diluted and composted anyway if it's too much raw.
- samus 2mo agoIt could simply be diluted with lots of river water and disposed into the sea, like the waste product of saltwater desalination plants. Another solution would be to test it in a lab and then bottle it up and sell it, like it was originally intended to be done. But that's a non-starter for the same reason the producer went out of business back then.
- Arainach 2mo agoSalt isn't conducive to things growing - or composting. High salt levels kill bacteria and hurt plants. Fish sauce is very high in salt.
- fsckboy 2mo agomarine life is unphased by salt; this fish sauce is former marine life