"Humanure" is a neologism designating human waste (feces and urine) that is recycled via composting for agricultural or other purposes. The term was popularized by The Humanure Handbook, a 1994 book by Joseph Jenkins that advocates the use of this organic soil amendment. A neologism is word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) —often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. ... Recycle redirects here. ... Compost is the decomposed remnants of organic materials (those with plant and animal origins). ... Organic has several meanings and related topics. ... Soil is unconsolidated rock particles mixed with organic matter from plant decay. ...

Humanure is not traditional sewage that has been processed by waste-treatment facilities, which may include waste from industrial and other sources; rather, it is the combination of feces and urine with paper and additional carbon material (such as sawdust). Sewage is domestic, municipal, or industrial liquid waste products disposed of via a pipe or similar structure. ... Sewage treatment is the process that removes the majority of the contaminants from waste-water or sewage and produces both a liquid effluent suitable for disposal to the natural environment and a sludge. ... Rabbit feces are usually 0. ... Urine is liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and eventually expelled from the body in a process known as urination. ... General Name, Symbol, Number carbon, C, 6 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 14, 2, p Appearance black (graphite) colorless (diamond) Atomic mass 12. ...

Humanure is safe for humans to use on crops as long as it has been composted properly. This means that thermophilic decomposition of the humanure must heat it sufficiently to remove or destroy harmful pathogens, or enough time must have elapsed since fresh manure was added that biological activity has killed most pathogens. To be safe for the crops, a curing stage is often needed to allow a second mesophilic phase to reduce phytotoxins. A farmer in Germany working the land in the traditional way, with a horse and plough Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Thermophiles produce some of the bright colors of Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park A thermophile is an organism – a type of extremophile – which thrives at relatively high temperatures, up to about 60 °C. Many thermophiles are archaea. ... A pathogen (literally birth of pain from the Greek παθογένεια) is a biological agent that can cause disease to its host. ... Main articles: Life The most salient example of biological universality is that all living things share a common carbon-based biochemistry and in particular pass on their characteristics via genetic material, which is based on nucleic acids such as DNA and which uses a common genetic code with only minor... A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, typically between 25 and 40 °C (68 and 113 °F). ...

Humanure is different than night soil, which is raw human refuse spread on crops. Night soil is a term most often used to describe the practice of using untreated human waste as fertilizer. ...

See also

composting toilet Composting toilets use biological processes to deal with the disposal and processing of human excrement into organic compost material. ...

External links

The Humanure Handbook

Composting Toilet World