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Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business - If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Its perfectly possible to use human waste as a fertilizer, on earth you just need to compost it for around two years to make sure that the pathogens are gone.

As someone said on the moon the process might just be to leave it outside for a bit and you get a perfectly sterile pile of fertilizer