WE´RE FULL OF SHIT! THE FUTURE OF HUMAN FAECES

Human faeces. Source: Wikipedia.

By Gundhramns Hammer
April 9, 2015
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Can you imagine the pile of shit of 1 million people? How about the pile of 8 million people in a city like New York or 20 million people like in Mexico City? 

Mon dieu, mon Capitaine! That´s a mountain Everest of shit!

Oui, mon ami. It is a fact, we humans are full of shit. 

Until recently, human shit was seen as something worthless. 

But now things are changing drastically and some entrepreneurs are paying a lot of attention to our poop.

As a matter of fact, shit is already becoming a multimillion business in some parts of the world. 

Soon, from shit burgers to biogas, our crap is bound to become a useful waste matter for things that people think they matter.

Now, a few questions about this stinky business:

• If the sewage sludge from a shit processing plant is used to fertilise human crops, how about the heavy metals (zinc, copper, lead, cadmium, etc.) in our faeces? These metals will eventually saturate the agricultural fields and find their way into our foods.
• Also, putting recycled human faecal matter in the food chain, how will the sewage treatment plants make sure that no dangerous prions coming from the waste from slaughterhouses or the faeces of humans who carry the vCJD proteins, for example, do not end up in the food we eat?
• Since each person´s poop has a biosignature, would you eat string beans fertilised with the shit from a high security prison filled with serial rapists and killers? 

Obviously, this will require more technology. Perhaps nanotechnology.

It is a back to square one. One technology leads to another technology which will need another technology to solve the previous technology which will also lead to another technology which will need another technology and so forth. 

Today, man is a neverending chain of technologies on top of other chains of technologies. 

Anyway, here is an interesting documentary that will show you what is happening to our shit (Video 1):

You don´t know shit! The future of human waste management

Source: Vice Reports

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Every day, America must find a place to park 5 billion gallons of human waste, and we're increasingly unable to find the space. We wake up in the morning, brush our teeth, and flush the toilet, thinking that the wastewater disappears into the center of the Earth. If only that were the case.

Between 8 AM and 9 AM each morning, the waste output of Manhattan's West Side swells from 70 million to 150 million gallons per day. This is known as "the big flush." The sewage will eventually end up on a NYC Department of Environmental Protection Sewage boat, which will take the sludge to a dewatering plant on Ward's Island, where the sludge will become "biosolids" that can be reused to create golf courses, cemeteries, and fertilizer for the human food chain.

Biosolids have become a financial asset worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but it's still possible that we'll go back to dumping our waste in the ocean. In this new documentary, VICE traces the trail of waste from butt to big-money biosolid and beyond.​

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Video 1. You don´t know shit! The future of human waste manegement by Vice Reports.

References

Jenkins S.R., Armstrong C.W. & Monti M.M. (2007). Health Effects of Biosolids Applied to Land: Available Scientific Evidence. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, VA, USA. 29 pp.