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[Unregistered]

Human waste is not safe for fertilizer unless it has been properly treated--like at a county sanitation facility. It's unlikely that someone could use it safely from home.

While fecal matter needs to be treated, urine does not as it's largely comparable to sweat, and (assuming it's from someone whose not ill,) effectively harmless. Ask most doctors and they'll tell you that realistically it's not even necessary to wash ones hands after urination even though most people do so out of force of habit or as a result of company policies. Fecal matter is an entirely different story, and while it does need to be treated, in small quantities steam or boiling water can do the trick, and if you're making fertilizer from diapers, boiling water has the added benefit of making it easier to extract the absorbent material from the diaper, which works wonders as a fertilizer.

[mamamanda]

All I can picture is Matt Damon in the Martian growing potatoes in his own crap. ::

[MarinaVanessa]

I'm finding the idea of using human waste as fertilizer a VERY interesting concept considering that I always thought that human waste was toxic to plants and animals/people. Science is AMAZING!

[Unregistered]

Omg. They can have the ones here for free!

I know this is an old thread and I’m not anywhere near Houston, but if you or anyone else is ever serious about offering dirty diapers I’m happy to leave some contact information for you to reach me at here.

[Unregistered]

They've made it illegal here in Alabama for anyone to use human waste for fertilizer because of the risks associated with it

[hwichlaz]

I thought you couldn't make fertilizer with the waste of animals that eat meat. Learn something new every day I guess. Wish the person would have been around yesterday. I would have let them change my grandson once it was almost more than I could handle.

Are most babies mostly on milk? Even toddlers don't generally eat lots of meat.