Ecological sanitation

Ecological Sanitation. Composting toilets provide a safe and healthy option for sanitation systems worldwide. It relies on dry biochemical processes that do not require water. Aerobic decomposition of human feces is a viable technology particularly in rural and desert communities where water is unavailable for flushing toilets. 

Ecological. This historically venerable strategy is characterized by tactics designed to minimize exposure of plants to pathogens and make environmental conditions unfavorable for disease development. Measures include crop rotation, sanitation, and quarantine. Such procedures are valuable and worthy of further development, but they are generally of limited effectiveness in providing reliably high yield and quality of crops in areas with severe or persistent disease problems. 

There is an urgent need for of eco-friendly partnerships between private industry and public welfare institutions. Effective communications systems and critical-thinking skills are needed for the broad dissemination of ecological principles across traditional disciplines. The formation of public values that take into consideration the effect of human activity on other life systems should be part of the essential core curriculum at all levels of education. Such partnerships go beyond the local community to include international consortiums concerned with the full range of effects of commodities exchange, the genetic transfer of plants and animals, effective sanitation and waste-disposal practices, and the disciplined use and distribution of chemical substances. 

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