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| Humanure: Composting 100% of Your Life |
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Interview Highlights: |
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He usually speaks on Humanure because that is the title of his book that first come out 15 years ago. |
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You can compost everything you produce; it is called Extreme Composting |
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He owns a homestead and not a farm |
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All by-products of food production, food preparation and food consumption should be recycled |
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He recycles everything that comes out of the kitchen and the toilet (toilets and garbage disposals) |
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Waste water treatment plants contain a large amounts of nutrients that can be used for agriculture purposes |
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65% of the Nitrogen that pollutes the Chesapeake bay comes from human waste |
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In-sink garbage disposals contribute 850% more organic waste matter to waste water than toilets |
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A recycling household will not use garbage disposals nor even flush toilets |
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Compost process releases nutrients and destroys disease organisms |
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He describes how to make a complete compost pile |
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The largest barrier to complete recycling is psychological |
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| This video was made at Future Harvest SASA Annual Convention |
| http://www.futureharvestcasa.org/ |
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