Talk:Humanure
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Is this a word actually used by people? A trademark of a product sold for fertilizer? Just something that somebody thought was cute? It needs some justification showing it's worthy of an encyclopedia article or it will be speedy-deleted again soon. - DavidWBrooks 00:37, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I thought so, too, but a quick google search gives 2'910 hits, and even excluding the hits for "The Humanure Handbook", there remain some 1'790. So I guess it might be a legitimate, albeit substubby entry. Lupo 10:47, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
-- Yeah, ok. Did an edit I did, the original poster. There’s no Wikipedia article for “mesophilic” a class of micro-organisms that like it cooler than the thermophilic.
I might initiate a phytotoxin article too, but it’s summer here and … well, agriculture is slowing down a little, so perhaps sometime soon…
Tried to get the author of the handbookinterested in the article, I did, but he wrote back pretty much “go ahead and do it”. He claims to have coined the word, a claim I have no reason to doubt.
Humanure is a material in process, a process of which I think the do’s and don’ts need to be clear, so let’s give it some time.
Might be the start of a whole new Wiki – Wikiag…
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-Ok, y’all, I’ve got a dilemma. The Humanure article still has stub status.
How do we make it complete ? Is it complete ?
As I’d written before, humanure is a material in process. Statistics like this, quoted from the humanure handbook –
“In the mid 1980s, the 2,207 publicly owned (US)coastal sewage treatment works were discharging 3.619 trillion gallons per year of treated wastewater into the coastal environment.”
can say that acceptance of the importance of the concept is also in transition.
So, do I/we begin to weigh the benefits versus the detrimental qualities of composting human excrement ? I am tempted to do so, and, as always, would welcome help with this composition, but just where do I/we draw a line between fact and opinion ? Is there a clear line in this case ?
Should we explore why the concepts of humanure are not more universally accepted in “the west” ? I suspect that one reason is that it is nearly impossible to enforce the keeping of industrial and household contaminants from being introduced into municipal “waste” treatment facilities, but again, is there a clear line between fact and opinion ? - listenin
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[edit] Heavy metal
Research needed into heavy metal contamination from human feces ? Come on... If a person ate more than a few micrograms of copper or lead or titanium that person would no longer be contributing much to the non-waste stream.
- Yes, this seems bogus - is there any kind of ref for this? Mark Richards 00:54, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] no more stub
Putting my comment at the bottom of the page, so it's comprensible over time, I would like to note that I have, per the request above, remove the "stub" notice. Perhaps more can be said on this topic, but the unsigned poster is correct, this is no longer a stub. - DavidWBrooks 19:43, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
