What Happens If You Use Your Feces as Fertilizer?
Being able to use human feces as fertilizer could be really helpful for human colonies on other planets. It could also be useful for human colonies on THIS planet! And who doesn't love recycling!...
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[♩INTRO] To those of you who saw the Martian and walked away wondering if you could actually use astronaut poop to help you grow potatoes on Mars, the answer is yes. You can also use astronaut poop to grow things back on Earth. Or...just any person. And while that might sound a little gross, we humans have been using our own feces for fertilizer for thousands of years. And we’re still doing it, through what are called biosolids — solids from wastewater that have been processed to make them safer. There are a lot of ecological benefits to using biosolids so some experts argue we should be using more of them. But questions about their safety remain, so researchers are still studying how to best recycle our poop. The danger with feces—be it co...
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[♩INTRO] To those of you who saw the Martian and walked away wondering if you could actually use astronaut poop to help you grow potatoes on Mars, the answer is yes. You can also use astronaut poop to grow things back on Earth. Or...just any person. And while that might sound a little gross, we humans have been using our own feces for fertilizer for thousands of years. And we’re still doing it, through what are called biosolids — solids from wastewater that have been processed to make them safer. There are a lot of ecological benefits to using biosolids so some experts argue we should be using more of them. But questions about their safety remain, so researchers are still studying how to best recycle our poop. The danger with feces—be it co...
