The Ventilated Arborloo What goes on underground? Peter Morgan (2024)
The Arborloo is a simple ecological toilet that was designed to recycle human waste within a shallow pit where the contents are transformed from a vile and disease forming material into a product which trees can tolerate, thrive and grow in without the user having to be in contact with the pit material. Many articles have been written by the writer about the Arborloo and other ecological toilets over the years from the late 1990’s.It is now time to discuss again the important processes going on underground in the pit – and revitalize work performed by the writer decades ago. Such processes are natural and biological, which is of great interest to the writer who is a biologist. It concerns the reactions of our excreta to soil, soil bacteria, fungi and leaves etc. Such processes are going on in Nature all the time. The fungi live in a Kingdom of their own, they are neither plants or animals. The mushroom is the most well known part of the fungus being the spore producing reproductive body above ground. The main fungal components, the mycelia and hyphae lie under ground and out of site. The underground mycelia and hyphae have played a vital role in the life of our planet for millions of years. They still do. A great deal can be read about the amazing history and life and influence of the fungal empire viewed on the web. It is a fascinating story.
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Peter Morgan (2024). The Ventilated Arborloo What goes on underground?
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