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Human Waste and What to do With It
I was thinking a couple days ago about what we should do with the Waste we Humans excert. Post Ideas here please. Thanks
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Cylon1994
My Dad has picked up a few articles on Sun-Mar toilets and what they do is they compost the waste for gardening. I think this would be great for gardens in an Undead World.
HeavenlySword: Ideally, we would still have working toilets in both my temporary fortresses and Final Fortresses. These would be reconfigured so that the waste would go into a compost system which would mix rubbish and dirt and sand and whatever you can think of, to fertilize food systems. Eventually, especially in Final Fortress, we would need to have hydroponics too, but I'm not an farmer or agricultural engineer, so it would take some time to learn how to become proficient in alternative agriculture.
Richboy33lb
Well, obviously you shouldn't eat it, or leave it around your base. If I didn't have running water in my base, I would dig a latrine in my garden. Leaving waste, particularly feces, lying around will create a terrible smell and it will be infected with millions of bacteria. Also, the feces may attract the Zack who wonder where it is coming from.
TekkenDevil
I always thought I would crap in all sorts of bags that I find, and then lob them in the faces of the Zombies just for fun. I really don't have any better uses of my waste.
BigBDaveIn a city or town I would try to toss it out a window away from my exits, or drop it off while I was scavenging. In rural areas were I live if the septic tank would still work as long as you had water to flush the toilet. It would take about a gallon of water to flush with a bucket. If you are close to a river, lake, or have a generator to run your water pump or a hand pump for the well, water shouldn't be hard to come by. You will need to scavenge septic tank chemicals to help keep it from filling to fast. After a while you will have to find a pump and tank to pump it out. They usually can go years before needing pumped.
Otheus: A good example of how to dispose of human waste can be seen in the movie Jarhead. The process involves burning the waste that has been collected in a container (usually a 55 gallon drum that has been cut in half and put underneath the outhouse) and adding diesel fuel to the drum and lighting it on fire. With lots of stirring this effectively eliminates the waste without fear of spreading disease and other contamination due to having human waste around.
byates: Check out Humanure and the $25 sawdust toilet
Domnu: Human waste can be a pretty decent source of energy if you use it in an anaerobic digestion system. Provides you with methane and fertilizer to use afterward. Keep your power on and grow some food with your shit.
Andrew1602: There are two things you may do. One is to return the waste to the Earth as a fertilizer, it will help the plants and/or trees. Two is a bit dangerous... Um, Build a pit, a deep one, and throw the waste into the pit in bags. Cover the pit with leaves and wait, untill the zombie(s) arrive. Then you can pick them off, or capture them for reasearch, and reset. If hostile Humans fall into the pit, the stench will be unbearable, and I doubt they will come back anythime soon. Um, This can be kept up untill supierior toliet systems are created. In the begininng it will be the use of latrines, and holes in the ground. Well, return to running water will be a bit easier if the fort is next to a stream. Well, those are my two cents.
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