But there's a crucial difference between humanure and modern sludge, known in the sewage industry as "biosolids." Humanure is made from pure human excrement. It can still contain residues from ...

The gleaming white commode, a mainstay of modern civilization, is not something most folks question. But anyone who does stop to ponder why we flush our feces and urine into nearby streams and rivers ...

One of the most remarkable agricultural practices adopted by any civilized people is the centuries-long and well nigh universal conservation and utilization of all human waste in China, Korea and ...

Dirk Wurst (not his real name), his bushy red Afro (not his real hair) bouncing in the wind, wearing his trademark pink coveralls (that'll confuse 'em), is heading out to his front yard on his ...

"I wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go to the fields to relieve myself." This call of (and deposit in) nature was something Anoop Jain heard about over and again while doing community health surveys ...

Poop is a sensitive issue in Durango, where scientific studies recently proved that too much human feces is flowing into the Animas River downstream to Farmington. The Durango City Council is ...

Over the three days of Falls Festival the population of Marion Bay in Tasmania increases by about 12,000 people to party, dance, eat and poop. There are about 200 composting toilets at the festival, ...

Carol Steinfeld and Claire Anderson explain the benefits of using a composting toilet to recycle humanure for garden compost. Originally published as "Water-Wise Toilets" June/July 2002 MOTHER EARTH ...

Take only photographs, and leave only footprints – and if you were one of the thousands to visit Glastonbury Festival this weekend, please leave some poo, as well. Starting today, the contents from ...