Poo it Stinks

[Agrivator]

Stats say 3.6m tons of treated human waste applied to land pa in the UK. That's 54kg per person. Or 150g per person per day.

Pooptastic.

Please translate for someone who is still crapping in imperial.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I don’t much like Agrivert sewage cake as it is jolly unpleasant stuff to be downwind of.

A neighbour-but-one has started taking in huge heaps of paper waste and although I’m about a mile and a half away it is minging when the wind is in the wrong direction - I can only describe it like sticking your head in a filthy dumpster on a hot sunny day.
I also notice that today a new heap has been started just over the fence from his neighbouring farmers house. They already don’t get on. I may need some popcorn.

 

[Steevo]

It does make you wonder where people would prefer this was taken.

Landfill?
Dumped in the sea?
Burnt?

Recycling seems to be the “in” thing.....but yet even then the practice is considered unacceptable.

 

[teslacoils]

I dont have the stats but a fair bit of Severn Trent sludge has been through an ad plant -

So turds, to energy, to fertiliser. Only downside is a slight pong for a few days. It's not like it's everywhere - less than one percent of land in the Anglian water region has sludge applied.

 

[icanshootwell]

Why not the people producing it!

 

[slackjawedyokel]

It does make you wonder where people would prefer this was taken.

Landfill?
Dumped in the sea?
Burnt?

Recycling seems to be the “in” thing.....but yet even then the practice is considered unacceptable.

I do think that putting organic wastes back onto the land is the best thing so long as it’s safe to do that (I have to sign a bit of paper for the silos each year saying I haven’t used any sewage sludge, so presumably someone in the food chain doesn’t like it!) Got to be best if it might increase SOM and probably also be a fertiliser!
No getting away from the fact that it stinks though, and the urban majority (including the majority of rural dwellers that have no real interaction with the countryside) I think have an ever reducing tolerance of intrusive farming practices.
I guess there will be an edict saying you have to incorporate it into the soil within hours of spreading. To shortly be followed by another saying you can’t disturb the soil surface lest you start volatilising carbon