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It's high summer in Europe.
The Guardian newspaper reports on a new initiative in the Danish musical epicentre of Roskilde to make festivalgoers aware of the intimate link between them and their beer: the festival organization coined a new word "beercycling" which means nothing more than recycling the valuable nitrates from music lovers' urine through a near-by barley field, and then transmogrifying said barley into golden mjød (actually pilsner beer in the current project).
According to the newspaper, the Roskilde festival (established æons ago in the hippy era) has a reputation for its ecological awareness.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 04 2015, @12:43AM
Using human excrement directly on food crops has it's risks, certainly. But the waste products can be used indirectly. Use it to fertilize non-food crops, or use it with landscaping mulch, or just spread it in the forest. Or - if economically feasible, treat it to destroy potential parasites. A hot mulching process would take care of that.
It all ends up back in the biosphere, no matter what you do. Might as well make the best use of it. Where I live, in Outback, Nowhere, our waste goes through the septic tank, out into a leach bed, then drains out into a forested area. We've not noticed that the trees are suffering from the "contaminated" water.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2015, @06:46AM
"The grass is always greener over the septic tank" [amazon.com].
When I was a little kid, we had a septic tank too. You could always tell by the lush foliage...