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Why human waste should be used for fertilizer<\/a><\/h3>\n
[ At John Jeavons Biointensive workshop back in 2003, I learned that\u00a0phosphorous is limited<\/a>\u00a0and mostly being lost to oceans and other waterways after exiting sewage treatment plants.\u00a0 He said that it\u2019s dangerous if done incorrectly and wasn\u2019t going to cover this at the workshop, but to keep it in mind for the future.<\/div>\n
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Fertilizer increase crop production up to 5 times per acre. To give you an idea of how important natural-gas (feedstock and energy to make it) fertilizer is, here are a few paragraphs from Yeonmi Park\u2019s recent book \u201cIn order to live: A North Korean girl\u2019s journey to freedom\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the big problems in North Korea was a fertilizer shortage. When the economy collapsed in the 1990s, the Soviet Union stopped sending fertilizer to us and our own factories stopped producing it. Whatever was donated from other countries couldn\u2019t get to the farms because the transportation system had also broken down. this led to crop failures that made the famine even worse. So the government came up with a campaign to fill the fertilizer gap with a local and renewable source: human and animal waste. Every worker and schoolchild had a quota to fill.\u00a0 Every member of the household had a daily assignment, so when we got up in the morning, it was like a war. My aunts were the most competitive.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember not to poop in school! Wait to do it here!\u201d my aunt in Kowon told me every day.<\/p>\n

Whenever my aunt in Songnam-ri traveled away from home and had to pop somewhere else, she loudly complained that she didn\u2019t have a plastic bag with her to save it.<\/p>\n

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Why human waste should be used for fertilizer [ At John Jeavons Biointensive workshop back in 2003, I learned that\u00a0phosphorous is limited\u00a0and mostly being lost to oceans and other waterways after exiting sewage treatment plants.\u00a0 He said that it\u2019s dangerous if done incorrectly and wasn\u2019t going to cover this at the workshop, but to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14329,4844,319,5620,2006,14328,742],"class_list":["post-21739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-crop-production","tag-fertilizer","tag-food","tag-human-waste","tag-north-korea","tag-phosphorous","tag-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21740,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions\/21740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}