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Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by emj on Sunday July 14, 2019 @01:32PM (#20434627)
It's a bit worrying that they talk about burning human shit to get phosphate when you can just compost it.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by robocat on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:49PM (#20435905)
The issue is probably all the contaminants in human poo, especially medical: anti-bacterials, hormones, radioactive tracers. Maybe it isn't so much purifying the phosphate that matters, but removing components that would be bad to recirculate into our food chain.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by emj on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:25PM (#20436607)
High temperature composting deal with the most common problems anyways, and you preserve the nutrients rather than burn them up. The biggest problem is how bad water waste management systems are at producing fertiziler, the wide spread idea that it's ok to pollute our waste water with what ever, making it unusable for composte is not healthy. I do not think burning it can solve more than a tiny part of that problem.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by seunosewa on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:05PM (#20435246)
I guess it's because composting doesn't guarantee the destruction of pathogens.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by Nasrudith on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:06PM (#20436474)
Yeah human waste fertilizer sounds like a very good way to get outbreaks.
Re:Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms by johnrgrace on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:50PM (#20437764)
Milorganite is a fertilizer here in the midwest which is kiln dried microbrobes from milwaukee water treatment system,

https://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorg...