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		SR2Z 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Best practices for dealing with human waste in the... I have heard that it's unusually nutrient rich - maybe not toxins, but human shit definitely causes algal blooms.

IAmBroom 78 days ago | [–]

Dumping ANY manure into a body of water causes algal blooms. Fecal matter concentrates nutrients. This has happened with modern megafarms, when flooding overflows their manure pits.

raxxorraxor 79 days ago | | [–]

Wouldn't be the first time humans tried to use human manure as fertilizer. It always ended quite shitty (for humans).

leksak 80 days ago | [–]

And human urine

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