Effective Micro-organisms

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

When I read about EM I thought it could be what you mention in your Megaloo

brochure. (Below.) What are the specific micro-organisms you use? At first I

was thinking it is just finished compost with its present bacteria, but it

sounds a bit more sophisticated than that.

 

"This system operates on the prolific generation of specific micro-organisms

which assist in the breaking down of organic matter. This science is at the

forefront of modern technology in agricultural development. The initial

application of these micro-organisms eliminate the odorous smell of human

waste in a number of days. "

 

Another point..

I was reading in the NZ newspaper (I kept the article) that the sewage

sludge in Wellington is recycled back into compost. They are also planning

to do the same in Auckland. This is because they have a huge mountain of the

s... If they don't compost it they will have to either burn it (polluting

the air) or dump it in the ocean (polluting the water), bury it (polluting

the land).

 

But there is one problem. ("Pathogens are not a problem.") The problem is

that the "pure" sewage (biosolids) gets mixed with water run off etc. and

heavy metals and dioxins get mixed in. This means that if the compost is

used on pasture, and the cows eat some of it, (which they do) it can lead to

poisonous dioxins getting in the milk.

 

Once again the water-based centralized system of handling human biosolids

has been shown to be a failure. It is clear to me that the best system is a

local dry system. Either every house composting their own, or it could be

done on a neighbourhood level with a collection like the garbage collection.

The advantage of a community-based approach is that it would be easier to

monitor for government authorities who are concerned about health risks.

 

Another positive development in Auckland is the council is reducing the size

of rubbish bins from 240l to 120 litres. They are encouraging people to use

recycling bins for cans/plastics etc... and to compost the garden waste at

home. Or if they can't do that, the old 240l rubbish bins will be used for

organic collection for large scale composting. At present, there is a

ridiculuous percentage of organic waste going into the garbage system.

 

Your servant,

Krsnendu das