Re: Shit as fertilizer

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>On 4 Nov 2003 16:12:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan J. Lefosi)
>wrote:
>
>|=[:o)  Is my shit good for this?
>
>IMHO
>i've ever know that human shit is not good as fertilizer.
>C/N ratio is too low and there are, also, too many heavy metals.
>Else is not fermented so there is an high load of pathogenic bacteria.

Eh? It's a major fertiliser in many areas of the world - "night soil".

High in nitrogen it's similar to pigshit, 
which will grow plants like nobodies business. [sorry]

All animal excreta contains significant amounts of pathogens (most
particularly bird excreta) but soils have been biodegrading them for
hundreds of millions of years. Composing is a good thing if you want a
nice crumbly more-or-less odour free product, but note that you will
lose quite a lot of nitrogen in the process.

I have used large quantities (20-30 million gallons) of treated sewage
sludge over the years, mostly on grassland, where it is highly
effective. In this case sunlight is a major process to remove the last
vestiges of pathogens.

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