Overcoming taboos
2.6 Billion people literally have no place to go, that is no . Here’s a video that shows a unique project taking place in , using human and to . You couldn’t do this in North America as our is far too contaminated with prescription drugs, industrial waste and heavy metals. In undeveloped countries that is not as big a problem and the new way of collecting it, as shown in this video, opens a lot of possibilities. Reducing fecal contamination of streams would go a long way to improving health and lowering mortality rates in these countries.
Comment from Ian Gordon
Time: 3/22/2008, 2:36 am
A lot of what is being said here has already been said in the book Humanure, which is about the composting of human faeces and urine.
It is certainly impossible to use materials in the centralized sanitation systems because the waste comes from everywhere. However this is not true of home systems. Additionally thermophilic composting kills all known disease vectors and germs associated with sanitation whereas the centralized systems do not.
The water treatment plants in use today in developed nations amount to little more than a sick joke. They don’t work, they’re expensive to operate and they transfer large amounts of organic resources into the seas to create dead zones off the coast.