Now we're talking shit, serious shit, piling up everywhere

ttystikk

ttystikk

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ANC said:
Time to go back to terra preta clay pots in developing communities.
Deals with the problem and improves the environment for thousands of years to come.
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Please elaborate?

The title is a bit of cheek, but we are in deep shit. A growing world population is overwhelming sanitation systems, especially in overcrowded developing nations.

An example; 600 million Indian citizens practice open defecation, that is they shit out in the open. Much of it isn't cleaned up, let alone treated.

Another example; a former tenant was a professor from China with the Ministry of Agriculture. He was here on an exchange program and his major project was to explore and advance the feasibility of public waste facilities in rural villages throughout the interior of China to treat human waste and to capture methane from its decomposition for use in rural electrical generation.
 
ANC

ANC

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If you are not familiar with terra preta, it is the name for meters thick black soil found around inca dwellings.
Their sanitary system consisted of doing their business in a clay pot and throwing a thin layer of biochar on afterwards.
When the pot was full it got delivered to the soil people who broke the pots and scattered the broken down compost and loaded biochar into places they needed to convert to an arable soil.
That whole area is covered in terrible clay soils that are not suitable for farming. What they did to convert it was nothing short of a miracle, and the best part is the biochar will serve that soil for thousands of years. Sadly it is being exploited by people digging it out and selling it.
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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That is a neat looking composting toilet. I have not used or seen it before. I look forward to the day upgrades are made to the deep toilet holes in small brick buildings usually found at camping areas or trail head parking lots areas. I was just at one this past weekend and it was mind bending to see thick mudd like shit plastered in the middle side of the Deep hole. It's like that persons shit was made with elmers glue to stick on like that. Truely Repulsive.
 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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Dr.Amber Trichome said:
That is a neat looking composting toilet. I have not used or seen it before. I look forward to the day upgrades are made to the deep toilet holes in small brick buildings usually found at camping areas or trail head parking lots areas. I was just at one this past weekend and it was mind bending to see thick mudd like shit plastered in the middle side of the Deep hole. It's like that persons shit was made with elmers glue to stick on like that. Truely Repulsive.
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The wonders of nature, so inspiring ;)
 
greg nr

greg nr

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I have a septic system and a well. All the water I use is recycled back into the water table, and every 2 years a honey wagon takes shit from us. The shit they take is well composted. We have a very active microbial ecosystem down there.

It always amazed me that communities FORCE residents to use public sewer and water systems. If they ever extend the water district to my house, I would have to pay thousands to disconnect and remove my very green septic system and pay thousands more to connect to the public system.

It's crazy. Crazy I say. Can I say again how CRAZY that is?
 
Dr.Amber Trichome

Dr.Amber Trichome

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Yeah ass backwards world we live in.
I have invented a "shit Kit" for REI to sell to hikers and backpackers who don't have the time to put together the suppplies they need for shitting in the woods in a sanatary clean fashion.
 
jonsnow399

jonsnow399

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greg nr said:
I have a septic system and a well. All the water I use is recycled back into the water table, and every 2 years a honey wagon takes shit from us. The shit they take is well composted. We have a very active microbial ecosystem down there.

It always amazed me that communities FORCE residents to use public sewer and water systems. If they ever extend the water district to my house, I would have to pay thousands to disconnect and remove my very green septic system and pay thousands more to connect to the public system.

It's crazy. Crazy I say. Can I say again how CRAZY that is?
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Many years ago we were forced to hook up to city water, we were previously paying a neighbor 4 dollars a month for unlimited water, now its over 40 dollars a month basic fee an a charge per gallon after that.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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ANC said:
If you are not familiar with terra preta, it is the name for meters thick black soil found around inca dwellings.
Their sanitary system consisted of doing their business in a clay pot and throwing a thin layer of biochar on afterwards.
When the pot was full it got delivered to the soil people who broke the pots and scattered the broken down compost and loaded biochar into places they needed to convert to an arable soil.
That whole area is covered in terrible clay soils that are not suitable for farming. What they did to convert it was nothing short of a miracle, and the best part is the biochar will serve that soil for thousands of years. Sadly it is being exploited by people digging it out and selling it.
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As usual, ancient peoples have solved so many of our modern problems and it only falls to us to pay attention.

There are so many places where there's national agriculture that could benefit greatly from such a system.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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jonsnow399 said:
Many years ago we were forced to hook up to city water, we were previously paying a neighbor 4 dollars a month for unlimited water, now its over 40 dollars a month basic fee an a charge per gallon after that.
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That's the head end, what about the ass?
 
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