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RallyPoint Members, Connections, and Friends please check out the Link to support the new project for Sanitary Nutrient Recycling organized by SPC Jeffrey Frusha:

https://www.gofundme.com/reinventing-the-toilet

I started studying Anaerobic Digestion as a teenager, after my grandparents gave me a subscription to Mother Earth News. That first issue had an article that sparked my interest.

I recently found a few more pieces of the puzzle that I think can produce a much better small-scale waste management system, to safely and more completely recycle household organic waste into fertilizer.

Most of the world uses unsanitary methods that include direct application of untreated human waste and animal manures that can include parasites.

My goal to put together a small, low-cost, relatively simple anaerobic digester toilet system to enter into the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge of the Gates Foundation. The goal is to reduce deforestation, pollution and disease, while increasing the time available for education and a healthier home environment, including the creation of a safe liquid fertilizer for fruits and vegetables and Biogas for cooking, instead of the smoky, open fires that are most common.

In addition, this can help create more sanitary portable toilets for refugee and homeless camps, military forward base camps, tiny homes, off-grid living, preppers, as well as general public use.

Technical aspects for those interested...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeffrey-l-frusha/self-stirring-mesophilic-anaerobic-reactor-ss-mar-as-part-of-an-off-grid-househo/ [login to see] 525464/

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SPC Robert Gilhuly
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I locate water and sewer municipalities in Maryland, I find this most fascinating, keep up the great work SPC Jeffrey Frusha
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SPC Jeffrey Frusha
SPC Jeffrey Frusha
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7.7 Billion people (and rising)... World Population
3.85 Billion people... Living w/o sanitation NOW
~3,000,000,000 pounds of raw sewage pollution... 1.5 MILLION tons, DAILY...

It's no longer a 'not in my backyard' issue... It's in the WATER, on the ground and is poisoning the planet.

The goal of my project is to help eliminate this growing problem, turm that waste into a set of value-added assets.
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The self mixing/stirring method I plan to use just showed up in Peer Reviewed research and instead of the usual 15% of digestible volatiles consumption, reports 65%+. Along with low heating and hydrolysis of paper wastes and co-digestion of table scraps to help balance the Carbon to Nitrogen ratio and better support the Archaea (Methanogenic Microbes and Bacteria that perform all the actual work..

I plan extensive testing, to include destruction of Ascaris Suum eggs

I'm actually trying to avoid using mechanical features, so that it does not have the same wear and tear any mechanical system would experience in a corrosive environment.

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Thank you SGT John Jensen for supporting the new project for Sanitary Nutrient Recycling organized by SPC Jeffrey Frusha
"In an effort to reduce pollution, disease and deforestation in impoverished parts of the world; my design brings together an easy to implement, durable anaerobic treatment system with a manual toilet. This makes a safe liquid fertilizer for fruits and vegetables with the added benefit of Biogas for cooking. These can also be portable units for refugee and homeless camps. Commercial sales for off-grid homes, communities for general public use and military forward base camps will offset costs to impoverished areas, while improving the environment."
Thank you, my friend COL Mikel J. Burroughs for mentioning me.
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Issue is Sir, getting him funded, I am doing all the electronics work for free for him now, but the gates foundation needs a bit more, Can you advise on the that?
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SPC Jeffrey Frusha
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7.7 Billion people (and rising)... World Population
3.85 Billion people... Living w/o sanitation NOW
~3,000,000,000 pounds of raw sewage pollution... 1.5 MILLION tons, DAILY...

It's no longer a 'not in my backyard' issue... It's in the WATER, on the ground and is poisoning the planet.

The goal of my project is to help eliminate this growing problem, turm that waste into a set of value-added assets.
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SPC Jeffrey Frusha
SPC Jeffrey Frusha
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The self mixing/stirring method I plan to use just showed up in Peer Reviewed research and instead of the usual 15% of digestible volatiles consumption, reports 65%+. Along with low heating and hydrolysis of paper wastes and co-digestion of table scraps to help balance the Carbon to Nitrogen ratio and better support the Archaea (Methanogenic Microbes and Bacteria that perform all the actual work..

I plan extensive testing, to include destruction of Ascaris Suum eggs

I'm actually trying to avoid using mechanical features, so that it does not have the same wear and tear any mechanical system would experience in a corrosive environment.

Jeff
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Very nice link and project SPC Jeffrey Frusha and thanks for sharing SGT John Jensen - I'm going to share this with other RallyPoint Members. I hope you don't mind.
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7.7 Billion people (and rising)... World Population
3.85 Billion people... Living w/o sanitation NOW
~3,000,000,000 pounds of raw sewage pollution... 1.5 MILLION tons, DAILY...

It's no longer a 'not in my backyard' issue... It's in the WATER, on the ground and is poisoning the planet.

The goal of my project is to help eliminate this growing problem, turm that waste into a set of value-added assets.
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The self mixing/stirring method I plan to use just showed up in Peer Reviewed research and instead of the usual 15% of digestible volatiles consumption, reports 65%+. Along with low heating and hydrolysis of paper wastes and co-digestion of table scraps to help balance the Carbon to Nitrogen ratio and better support the Archaea (Methanogenic Microbes and Bacteria that perform all the actual work..

I plan extensive testing, to include destruction of Ascaris Suum eggs

I'm actually trying to avoid using mechanical features, so that it does not have the same wear and tear any mechanical system would experience in a corrosive environment.

Jeff
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