Fertilizer And Composting Toilet
Fertilizer is essential for growing healthy plants, and nutritious vegetables, in order for us to have the best wholesome value, crops have to be grown in a rich type of soil comprised of fertilizer and compost compounds. Over use of land for growing crops takes necessary minerals and properties out of the soil, these have to be replaced with fertilizer.
Over the centuries humans in ‘civalized’ society have not dealt with there waste in the wisest of ways, (not realizing its fertilizer potencial) back in the middle ages human waste was carelessly disposed of, for example it was common practice to throw it out of the window in to the busy streets below. Later there were pits under the houses that would have to be emptied by hand, these would often over flow into the street and stink horribly.
Sanitary situations improved for humans as waste was then effectively removed and flushed into rivers, this in turn was not good for the fish or the aquatic eco-system, so then came the sewage treatment plants and miles of sewage pipes and underground systems all designed to deal with human waste.
Unfortunately a most simple alternative was largely over looked, in that it was not considered an alternative, probably because in the past collections of human was were not dealt with in the most effective way and pathogens bacteria would prosper there and the only consideration was for it to be flushed away out of sight.
However now composting toilets have be making a come back with an appropriate way of storing and treating the waste so that it becomes a viable product. Fertilizer is used for the enrichment of the land.
A composting toilet that is properly maintained does not smell. Decomposition in the holding tank is achieved by biochemical interaction. The decomposing materials create a mini-environment for bacteria which digest the excrement and turn it into hygienic fertilizer in about 6 months.
Composting toilets use the natural processes of decomposition and evaporation to recycle human waste. Waste entering is mostly water, that evaporats and it’s carried back to the atmosphere through the vent system. The small amount of remaining solid material is converted to useful fertilizing soil by natural decomposition.
The right balance between moisture, heat oxygen, and organic material is required to ensure a environment rich for the aerobic bacteria that transform the waste into fertilizing soil. This ensures odor-free operation and complete decomposition of waste.
Human waste that is properly composted, makes an end product does not contain any pathogens or viruses these are destroyed by bacterial breakdown. The fertilizer is nutrient-rich it can then be used on plants and great for crops even put around the base of trees, as this is part of the natural cycling of nutrients, reducing your need for commercial fertilizers and preserving local water quality.
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Though skeptics believe that composting toilets will never be successful in the Western world, new technologies as well as old are being used to solve two problems.
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Composting toilets remove water from the equation almost completely, instead utilizing nature’s composting system to turn your waste into fertilizer. Some composting toilet,
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Composting is not new technology. The British agronomist Sir Albert Howard worked with farmers in India in the 1930’s to compost human excrement and turn it into a safe form of fertilizer.
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