Feedback on Night Soil: Composting Human Waste

By Bruce Martin And Harold & Grace Brown
Published on September 1, 1973
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PHOTO: FOTOLIA/DMITRY NAUMOV
Composting human waste — aka "Night Soil" — can be easily done in a way that also controls any problems with flies or odor. 

In MOTHER EARTH NEWS Edith Little asked for information about
using yeast in a privy to decompose and deodorize feces or
“night soil.” I don’t know of any yeast that will serve
this purpose, but I do know that composting human waste can be

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