[Terrapreta] sewage sludge

[Greg and April]

That is, unless your taking the most common type of pharmaceutical - antibiotics.

And the common most trend for doctors with antibiotics, is to prescribe more than is needed to ensure that infection is really killed.

You could end up killing your compost heap, until the antibiotics biodegrade or worse even brew a antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria in that same compost heap.    Neither is good, and an antibiotic strain of bacteria is really bad.


Greg H

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Folke Günther 
  To: 'Gerald Van Koeverden' ; 'Michael Bailes' 
  Cc: 'Terra Preta' 
  Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:02
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] sewage sludge


   

  Från: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] För Gerald Van Koeverden
  Skickat: den 10 april 2008 14:58
  Till: Michael Bailes
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  [FG:] Not to mention the hospitals, with all their surplus chemicals, and those actually passing through the patients, either at the hospital or at home. If you pee in a bucket with charcoal and put the char into the  compost heap, most of the medicals you have eaten recently will probably be consumed by bacteria, but if you put into the WC and dilute it with the greywater from the house, the concentrations will probably be so low, that the chemicals will pass into the lake or sea unharmed.

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