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Japan 'poop master' gives back to nature

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By Harumi OZAWA

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Toilets, toilet paper and wastewater facilities require huge amounts of water, energy and chemicals. Letting soil do the work is much better for the environment, says Izawa, who believes more people should follow his lead.

Fair enough if he lives as a hermit, but is he seriously suggesting this for towns and cities??

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How's that working out in San Francisco?

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The great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier discovered that although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same. Ergo, the statement "gives back to nature" in this case is scientifically incorrect.

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"Human waste -- more than other animals' -- can contain bacteria that are potentially harmful to the environment, and defecating outside is banned in Japan."

Dangerous practice and in some countries like NK people have worms from using human waste as fertilizer. In real India people defecating in fields spreads diseases.

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What are the diseases caused by open defecation?

Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections, and polio.

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What comes out is a reflection of what goes in. Eat a diet of natural foods with no "processing" and additives, and human waste is no worse than any other animal, and is a fine fertilizer.

The planet survives with the waste of all living things. It is all a part of the cycle of life. The trouble is humans alter almost everything they come in contact with, including food.

I grow what I can in my back yard and part of the process is horse manure for fertilizing. Natural food that tastes great when picked fresh from the garden, washed and eaten immediately in the next meal.

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I get what he's trying to impress upon people but it's just too risky, unsanitary as well as impractical.

Maybe start on a smaller scale like composting your organic garbage if you have a yard and enough space.

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Dry organic toilets work. He could put those in his forest.

https://www.trelino.com/blogs/magazine/how-a-dry-composting-toilet-works?srsltid=AfmBOoqEnEBBsWzeo3KSFoypt8aspsj9pMp72_NBG3hrTRwAMPVnWP8L

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Peter14

What comes out is a reflection of what goes in. Eat a diet of natural foods with no "processing" and additives, and human waste is no worse than any other animal, and is a fine fertilizer.

Yes, but modern city humans are full of pharmaceuticals, recreational drugs, chemical junk food additives, growth hormones from factory animals and artificial spike proteins.... so what they produce is not really comparable to animal poop.

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