What do you use to filter your drain effluent?

[ZooCity]

I doubt ours is as cool. We do have a relationship between the city and a compost operation next door involving a poo conveyor from the plant and the use of humanure next door to make really good garden dirt. But I think thats pretty standard these days for most places.

[ebscreen]

In high school we went on a field trip to our local natural sewage treatment facility. All UV, biological digesters, etc.

Apparently tomato seeds survive the human digestive tract. I'll leave it at that.



Roll filter media here as well.

[mk162]

How did you know?  Did they sell bags of "roasted" tomato seeds in the snack bar?

[tpitman]

How did you know?  Did they sell bags of "roasted" tomato seeds in the snack bar?

Alongside the "corn" chips . . . 

[ebscreen]

Largest healthiest most beautiful tomato plants growing out of the solid product field so to speak.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Thats interesting. What do they do with the tamaters?

[mk162]

fun fact:  did you know there is a man that lives in you appendix and his sole job is to reassemble corn.  Once you have your appendix removed, you will no longer pass whole kernels.

Sounds true to me.

[Prosperi-Tees]

fun fact:  did you know there is a man that lives in you appendix and his sole job is to reassemble corn.  Once you have your appendix removed, you will no longer pass whole kernels.

Sounds true to me.

Thats kinda.....corny! 

[Shawn (EIP)]

Wonder how many people that filter are owners or renters... I think I'd care more about filtering if I owned.

[ebscreen]

Renter, we filter. I'd hate to foot the bill to have the cement slab torn up. We use a pump as well so it's a bit
easier to do in our setup.


Would you eat a tomato grown out of (what used to be) human waste? Treated, composted, %100 safe?

[Prosperi-Tees]

Well what kinda crap do they use to grow our vegetables in the fields?

[ebscreen]

Good point. Humans eat some weird stuff though.

[mk162]

I would eat it in a heartbeat.  Composted matter is broken down so far from it's original.

The only thing I would worry about is medication still being present.

[ftembroidery]

I have heard that medications that have been flushed because they're "old" or "no longer needed" present a REAL problem for groundwater contamination.

[mk162]

I've heard the same, which leads me to believe that expiration dates on most of them is hogwash.