More People Have Access To Cellphones Than Toilets
March 24th, 2013The failure to see human waste as anything less than a valuable resource is THE most maddening nonsense that I’m aware of.
The media would have you believe that this is some sort of expensive, complicated, pretty much unsolvable issue when the most basic solution is a 20 liter bucket (or what Americans refer to as a 5 gallon bucket) and some dried leaves, sawdust or other dry biofilter material. The resulting compost can be used to grow vegetables. The end.
As usual, don’t take my word for it, even though I’ve tried it myself and found it to work great.
I read an earlier edition of, The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, back around 2002 and it was a truly mind blowing experience.
What does it take to get people to understand this? At this late stage of the game, we definitely don’t need more old, crusty boar pigs (like me) talking about buckets and shit.
Hmm.
When all else fails, deploy pretty girls!
Via: The Sideshow:
A new United Nations study has found that more people around the world have access to a cellphone than to a working toilet.
The study’s numbers claim that of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones. However, only 4.5 billion have access to a toilet.
At a press conference announcing the report, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson announced the organization is launching an effort to halve the number of those without access by the end of 2015.
Research Credit: noguru
Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay wrote a 400 page book on human waste.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583228675/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20
I lost my cell phone this past week. Really. I had a rental car while my real wheels were being fixed. Oh my gawd I don’t even care if I lost the cell phone. I could not drive the car without the windows down. The temp was down to 18 farenheit this week. What a hoot I must have looked like.
After the Mr. Stinkmobile experience, I’d take a bucket and make compost anyday over having a cell phone. Mine was so low tech I could barely send text messages on it, and WTF, right now I don’t care if the cell phone is “lost.” Take the bucket anyday.