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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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pumpkin cholo
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Bloomington, IN
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Here's my humanure compost pile. Six wooden pallets nailed together, four to make the main bin and two off to its side to contain the straw. Off to the left is a pile of partially rotted sawdust from untreated wood. By using sawdust and straw (or hay) in accordance with The Humanure Handbook, there is no odor. None of my neighbors know anything about that compost pile and have never complained. Its that benign of a process when done right. Some people might say that composting human manure is dangerous and that the resulting compost WILL contain deadly pathogens. I guess it would be a bad idea to tell those people that at this very moment, fecal matter containing deadly pathogens is brimming in their bowels. lol. Unless the person/s contributing to the pile are in fact infected with a deadly disease, it will not be present in the pile or the resulting compost. Simple logic. Even if a person did happen to be diseased, done right the conditions inside the humanure compost pile should become hot and more than capable of killing the pathogen. That coupled with a "curing" time of two years should result in compost just as sanitary as any other compost.
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