What Happens If You Use Your Feces as Fertilizer?

Being able to use human feces as fertilizer could be really helpful for human colonies on other planets. It could also be useful for human colonies on THIS planet! And who doesn’t love recycling!?

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biosolid.pumpkin.row.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_4522_Testing_for_pathogens_in_agricultural_soil_containing_biosolids.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Composting_in_the_Escuela_Barreales.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MRF_Composter03.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sludge.jpg

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