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Q&A: Can you recycle human waste?

25 Dec Posted by in Recycle | 8 comments

Question by noggin: Can you recycle human waste?
If you can, where would you store it? And on the subject, what about egg shells?

Best answer:

Answer by arkundapur
Yes, many of the items can be recycled.
Batteries can be recycled, lead is recycled from lead acid batteries, from dry batteries too certain chemicals can be recycled may be the inner graphite rods. Serious thought should be given to it.
Many parts of a car can be easily recycled.
Plastics can be recycled, including the thin variety, which is to be used for road making.
Human excreta too can be converted to good quality manure, prior to which Methane can be produced.
Solid degradable wastes can be converted to manure.

What do you think? Answer below!

 

8 comments

  • Holistic Mystic says:

    It can be used for fuel, heating, compost etc. In places like India they use animal waste as fuel for heating. The worst thing we can do with human waste is to put it in clean water.

    Yes, egg shells can be composted.

  • anissia says:

    you would need a composting toilet to do that , composting toilets will burn the human waste and only after it is burned can it be recycled. Egg shells you can throw right into your garden.

  • derek says:

    No, It is biohazard material.

  • statickema says:

    Yes, if want to get your own back.

  • jillionsings says:

    Human waste is the richest organic fertiliser there is.

    Currently a small percentage of this is put on the fields belonging to the aristocracy in the form of slurry which is very smelly and unpleasant. (Much still pollutes oceans…)

    Most sewage farms need updating – so it would make sense to invent a new system whereby alternative energy is used to dry the solid wastes to make small non-smelly pellets that could be used to speed the growth of trees –
    needed to absorb CO2, so we deal with global pollution rather than allow ourselves to be defeated – we all need enriched oxygen to breathe…

    Yes, egg shells can be composted…
    (better than having to walk on them, yes?)

  • Edward O says:

    Do you mean bring what you created from your trip to the toilet to be used as plastic ware?

  • pal says:

    Yes both can be recycles. Any organic matter can be decomposed. Best way is to put them or burry them in soil.

  • stripedbass91 says:

    Compost piles are highly efficient to the enviornment! Outside in your backyard is a great start! You can throw any wastes from food, yes even egg shells, into the compost pile. It is extremely healthy for the enviornment.


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