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    Toxic chems in TP & human waste as fertilizer

    "All toilet paper from across the globe checked for toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” contained the compounds, and the waste flushed down toilets and sent to sewage treatment plants probably creates a significant source of water pollution, new research has found.

    Once in the wastewater plant, the chemicals can be packed in sewage sludge that is eventually spread on cropland as fertilizer, or spilt into waterways".
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas-toilet-paper

    Something that stands out to me in this article is the little bit about human sewage being used on crops, wait, what?


    "Human Sewage Sludge in Compost? It’s Really a Thing (and BEWARE)

    If you don’t want to wind up with shampoo chemicals in your garden tomatoes, this information is for you. Now, I get it. When you swing by your local home improvement store for bagged fertilizer for your lawn or garden, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is toxic compounds. But there’s something you need to know. Human sewage sludge in compost is common and often marketed as “organic” despite chemicals sneaking into the mix.

    This “sludge” is the biosolid product leftover in wastewater treatment plants. In theory, using human waste as a nitrogen-rich, natural fertilizer seems logical, but it’s not that simple today. Why? Think of all of the things that go down the drain and into wastewater plants: everything from shampoo and antibacterial soap chemicals to medication residues and more. And it’s not just what’s drain-bound from U.S. homes, either. Waste from mortuaries, hospitals, industry and businesses also winds up in wastewater treatment plants and often in the leftover sludge, too".
    https://draxe.com/health/human-sewag...ge-in-compost/
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    "While the water is cleaned and discharged, the remaining toxic sewage sludge stays at the treatment plant, and it’s what Sierra Club environmentalist Nancy Raine calls “the most pollutant-rich manmade substance on Earth”.

    This “biosolid” sludge is expensive to dispose of because it must be landfilled, but the waste management industry is increasingly using a money-making alternative – repackaging the sludge as fertilizer and injecting it into the nation’s food chain.

    Now the practice is behind a growing number of public health problems. Spreading pollutant-filled biosolids on farmland is making people sick, contaminating drinking water and filling crops, livestock and humans with everything from pharmaceuticals to PFAS.

    As more biosolid-linked crises develop, some farmers and environmentalists are calling for a ban on the practice.

    In 2019, about 60% of sewage sludge produced by treatment facilities will be spread on farmland and gardens, as well as schoolyards and lawns. Sludge holds nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients that help crops grow, so the waste management industry lightly treats it and sells it cheaply to farmers who view it as a cost-saving product.

    But in fact the excrement from which sludge derives has mixed with any number of 80,000 manmade chemicals that are discharged from industry’s pipes or otherwise pumped into the sewer system. By the time the mix lands in treatment plants, it can teem with pharmaceuticals, hormones, pathogens, bacteria, viruses, protozoa and parasitic worms, as well as heavy metals like lead, cadmium, arsenic or mercury. It often includes PCBs, PFAS, dioxins, BPAs and dozens of other harmful substances ranging from flame retardants to hospital waste".

    https://www.theguardian.com/environm...cals-pollution
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    So here we have it, we got toxic chems used as fertilizers on our food, then we have human waste that has chemicals and pharmaceuticals, then we also have nano tech. No wonder so many people are sick.
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    As disgusting as it sounds, we don't think twice about cow and horse manure being used.

    The old terraced farm systems often had the the pigs and other animals raised on the upper tiers so the rains washed the manure down to the plants on lower levels.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    "All toilet paper from across the globe checked for toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” contained the compounds, and the waste flushed down toilets and sent to sewage treatment plants probably creates a significant source of water pollution, new research has found.

    Once in the wastewater plant, the chemicals can be packed in sewage sludge that is eventually spread on cropland as fertilizer, or spilt into waterways".
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-forever-chemicals-pfas-toilet-paper

    Something that stands out to me in this article is the little bit about human sewage being used on crops, wait, what?

    "Human Sewage Sludge in Compost? It’s Really a Thing (and BEWARE)

    If you don’t want to wind up with shampoo chemicals in your garden tomatoes, this information is for you. Now, I get it. When you swing by your local home improvement store for bagged fertilizer for your lawn or garden, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is toxic compounds. But there’s something you need to know. Human sewage sludge in compost is common and often marketed as “organic” despite chemicals sneaking into the mix.

    This “sludge” is the biosolid product leftover in wastewater treatment plants. In theory, using human waste as a nitrogen-rich, natural fertilizer seems logical, but it’s not that simple today. Why? Think of all of the things that go down the drain and into wastewater plants: everything from shampoo and antibacterial soap chemicals to medication residues and more. And it’s not just what’s drain-bound from U.S. homes, either. Waste from mortuaries, hospitals, industry and businesses also winds up in wastewater treatment plants and often in the leftover sludge, too".
    https://draxe.com/health/human-sewag...ge-in-compost/

    Whoa!!!

    Seriously?

    Isn't that like tossing dog $#@! into the compost pile? We were always told not to do that because dogs ate meat, which made their poo not suitable for the compost pile.

    I'm more than a little icked-out by this news.
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    That really chaps my ass to just now hear of this
    I bought Charmin just today .

    Ok. It stops up plumbing . In reality I only bought Charmin because there was an old lady in the 4th qtr of life that everyone deems useless and tends to ignore

    I wanted to make her feel someone does care
    I bought the expensive Charmin just to impress her

    She said "my life is now complete, younger man than I. "

    When I was leaving I saw an old woman face down in the parking lot being gawked at by the morbidly curious . She fit the description of the nice lady I had just interacted with

    My heart sank . I was so damn sad

    Then I realized it was another elderly outlier simply wearing a different shirt .

    I was so relieved. I did not want to get involved with "planted face" and I had a 3 PM hate fuk on my schedule so no time , sowwy
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Whoa!!!

    Seriously?

    Isn't that like tossing dog $#@! into the compost pile? We were always told not to do that because dogs ate meat, which made their poo not suitable for the compost pile.

    I'm more than a little icked-out by this news.
    Dogs have a tendency to be so appalling at times

    They do not do so intentionally. They are simply being themselves

    Off topic but my sis and I had a Pomeranian once when we were pre teens named "Nicky "


    It once urinated on a domino and stained mom's white carpet
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    Growing your own, knowing what it has been grown in, fertilized with, treated with, and how it was handled.

    Effluence was a known factor in crop contamination for years. And once again, we humans are the end user of this.
    "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Dogs have a tendency to be so appalling at times

    They do not do so intentionally. They are simply being themselves

    Off topic but my sis and I had a Pomeranian once when we were pre teens named "Nicky "

    It once urinated on a domino and stained mom's white carpet
    "A domino?" Was that on purpose? Or, did it just get in the way?

    I have huge dogs and if one urinated on a domino--the domino would be floating in a sea of pee.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Whoa!!!

    Seriously?

    Isn't that like tossing dog $#@! into the compost pile? We were always told not to do that because dogs ate meat, which made their poo not suitable for the compost pile.

    I'm more than a little icked-out by this news.

    The worst part is that it's old news. That makes it so much worse. Lol. Not liking it. It's way past time for the greenhouse.
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