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Re:Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered... by weberer on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @08:08AM (#32081524)
>For that matter, I don't understand why human poo is treated as pollution, rather than being composted.

Because human waste contains shigella bacteria which would be disastrous if runoff makes it to the water supply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigella

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Re:Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered... by freshpots on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @09:29AM (#32082423)
"Because human waste contains shigella bacteria..." we wouldn't put human waste directly on the land. We currently do spread treated human waste that has been digested on land, commonly called biosolids.

https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/basic-information-about-biosol...

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