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RE: Humanure to Worm Ca$tings. How your $hit could be worth more than $2/kg

in #permaculture7 years ago

Beautiful! Yes, terra preta and methane digesters are two topics I still want to address in my taking care of business series. One thing that keeps coming up, when thinking about dealing with other peoples' sh*t are the poisons they ingest. Of course, I can avoid antibiotics, or only take them in exceptional emergencies. But seeing how physicians are throwing that stuff around like candy, and ignorant patients eating it all up, thinking they are being responsible... honestly, I would feel sorry for the worms (and their whole biota). Maybe certain cases just call for anaerobic decomposition.

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Yeah, I didn't want to dive too deep, but The Humanure Handbook gets into a viable business or Municipal waste program that could be done. Geoff said that the microbiological activity should be able to breakdown or lock up toxins. Bioremediation (willows, cattails, living machines etc) and mycoremediation, particularly garden giant, is excellent for breaking down the pathogens... but if it was something like heavy metals, you could use fungi to hyperaccumulate them. But really, if I was to suggest this to anyone, I'd recommend all types of decomposition.... Hot compost, myco digestion and worms to eat whatever was left. Sadly, the food system itself makes our own compost questionably organic from all the stuff in the water, whatever ends up in leaves from along the roads, gmos, pesticides etc.... If you got really fancy, you could TRY to work with mostly 'clean' eaters, but really, even the strictest Vegan might have some stuff you might not want to deal with.... but philosophically..... it is sortof a metaphor for the individual and collective situation. Our shit is just too bad to deal with, so we have to keep ourselves separated from the very cycles we depend on while justifying a linear false reality for ourselves and the world.
Now you see maybe why I wanted to avoid it...
Shit gets DEEP, Fast.

I had a feeling @stortebeker would weigh on on this one :)
Also mind blown on that return comment @ecoknowme

He keeps me in shape.

Good gif response

I added two videos related to Biochar from poop that can be used for cooking and another for biogas from the same for the same :) Now to wait for it to get locked into the Blockchain! AH hahahahahahaha