Please remember that incinerating our poop reduces it to ash. While
this will in fact render the substance 'safe' for handling it also ruins
the fertilizer/soil enhancing qualities. At ARTA, it is our mission to
create and promote helthful toilet systems that will provide for the
return of our nutrient rich byproducts to the living biosphere in a
manner that is sustainable to the life upon the earth.
Incinerating toilets do not meet this critera. I believe that they
should be used only in limited applications where all other system types
cannot work, this includes that traditional septic system. While a
properly functioning septic system entoumbs our nutrient rich
byproducts, at least they become available to the biosphere in the next
geologic age. Incineration will promote the desertification of the
biosphere.
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