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Producing Organic Fertiliser from Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets in Dongsheng, China

Arno Rosemarin / Published on 16 December 2010
Citation

Mertens J. A. Rosemarin (2010). Producing Organic Fertiliser from Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets in Dongsheng, China. Mertens J. A. Rosemarin (2010). Producing Organic Fertiliser from Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets in Dongsheng, China . Urban Agriculture Magazine, no. 23: 39. http://www.ruaf.org/node/2197.

Boys and trees

Boys and trees

Although batch composting of manure is very common throughout China at both large and small scales, there is little experience with composting of human waste in urban centres.

This project, the first on thermal composting of human faeces under indoor controlled conditions, took place in a highdensity urban setting in Dongsheng, Erdos Municipality in Inner Mongolia, China.

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Arno Rosemarin
Arno Rosemarin

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