Treated Human Waste as Fertilizer? | SoCal Connected | KCET

Sewage sludge accumulated by more than four million residents in Los Angeles is extracted and treated at the Hyperion Treatment Plant, the city's largest and oldest wastewater treatment facility. There, human waste is processed and treated over the span of two weeks. In part, it entails screening for foreign objects, separating liquids from solids, and killing off pathogens at a specific temperature.
The goal: create biosolids for a variety of purposes, including fertilizer that's deemed safe under regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And approximately 75 percent of those biosolids -- that's 500 tons a day! -- are loaded on trucks headed to Kern County.
But not everyone is on board. In 2006, voters in Kern County passed a ballot measure intended to ban the process of depositing L.A.'s biosolids at the city of L.A.'s Green Acres Farm. But eight years later, the dumping debate still continues.
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[@gabrielgray735]

I would like to see the lab results of this finished product, which would answer a lot of the questions people have. If all turns out to be well, a year of composting wouldn't hurt.

[@johnhill3706]

Asian Southeast Asia have been doing this for thousands of years

[@THE______TRUTH]

Okay all the germs are gone but if they havent done tertiary treatment then there will still be lots of chemicals, pesticides and pharmeceuticals. Does L.A have tertiary treatment?

[@billygraham5589]

I don't think there's too much "metals" or other chemicals in the waste solids. That is digested food solids, such as indigestible cellulose. Note that this expert fellow at 7:30 in the video saying that you cannot use any manure to fertilize. What the reason for that is was not explained. But there is not any more bad chemicals in that cooked poop than anywhere else. And the "pharmaceuticals" are unstable molecules that will break down in the soil if the cooking process did not decompose them already. It might have been better to just cook the poop solids to like 150 degrees, kill everything, and then just add in "good" bacteria.

[@sheepseven7588]

LUKE 21 SAYS PESTILENCE WILL ARISE IN THE LAST DAYS THIS IS IT MANY WILL DIE. 😢😢😢

[@craigmack5655]

I'm a truck driver that hauls sludge to the farms from the treatment plant

[@danfield6030]

Nice to meet you.

[@craigmack5655]

@@danfield6030 the pleasures all mine ... lol

[@Beniamin6665]

Jose Sandoval getter done laddy

[@darthgamer6080]

Hats off to you! Someone has to do it!

[@elainevankat5353]

Agree! Thank you...

[@src3360]

There are these educated people who call themselves SOIL SCIENTISTS. They study soil, the environment and its constituents and how it effects plants growth, from seed to fully grown and beyond. They study food crops to ensure adequate nutrients are present. They are really cool scientists. LA should higher a few of them to work on this project......just a tip 😍

[@benbrown8258]

When they say human waste they're definitely not telling you about the toxic chemicals and heavy metals from industry that they're putting on to the soil if it's a normal Municipal Water Treatment Facility. Municipal Water sanitation treatment facilities were compromised In Design to reduce the cost to Industry so that they didn't have to treat their heavy metals fully. The net result of a compromise like that is neither human fecal waste or Industrial Waste can be fully dealt with in an ecological economical manner.

[@zainday7173]

The end product can also be turned into Charcoal that's synthesised to emit a 75 percent less carbon into the atmosphere. Supplied to Coal Plants which could have a 60 percent impact on relying on local or international Minining and reducing the environmental impact globally. If every country can follow this American model of eradicating human waste, would be a revolutionary breakthrough for keeping land and sea 🌊 clean.

[@dennisboyd9557]

& what about the ability of Prions entering the sewer from Hospitals ,Nursinghomes Testing labs,Kennels, Mortuaries Prions are not a Virus that can be destroyed by heat from digesters Warning ⚠️

[@dennisboyd9557]

The sewage sludge could be incinerated smoke scrubbed and the ash buried in containers is bio waste like Switzerland

[@williamworth2746]

We as human beings consume meet you cannot compost waste that has meet in it safely. We always wonder why there's an E coli outbreak in our food this is why.

[@montanaskies2702]

What do you think farmers have been using? It doesn’t cause ecoli unless it hasn’t been treated. & poultry eats meat to & it’s been used for a long time. Untreated! So maybe go see a farm & observe before you claim it causes ecoli. There are pesticides I’d be more worried about than fertilizer that’s been used for years

[@MG007.]

@@montanaskies2702 Exactly 💯 👏

[@king.indigo3692]

@@montanaskies2702 you sound so uneducated lol. This biosludge has essentially salted the earth.

[@king.indigo3692]

@@MG007. bruh......

[@treefrog123a]

Yes they have banned mexico several times for this and others, noe we do it ourselves

[@johnhill3706]

This is what we all should be doing it every state

[@danieltalis7711]

Mixed with bark and sawdust it's the answer for future cropping.

[@Jessy-qx4yr]

I preferred cow poop than human as fertilizer .. at least I know cow only eats grass .. :D

[@bryanbradley6871]

Fun fact the Amazon black Earth soil (the best soil in the world) key ingredient was human waste and they had no technology to disinfect the bad bacteria nor did they. They would just bury their waste and it created the Amazon black soil

[@johnhill3706]

This is what the whole nation should be doing if you’re not using petroleum based fertilizers that run the land

[@dennisboyd1712]

& WE wonder why we are sick, eat filth heavy metals, drugs, Prions ! Mad Cow Disease (MCD) is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), except that Mad Cow Disease. Cattle don't immediately get sick from eating the prions. It can take months or years for Mad Cow Disease to develop. & PRIONS are not destroyed by composting.

[@stephenmcelroyii7317]

Los Angeles processes 640,000,000 Gallons of raw waste every 24 hours. From this, 250 Tons of sludge is extracted. If you go to the EPA web site, read the National Sampling of Sewer Sludge. There is over 4,300 Chemicals, a like number of Heavy Metals, trace elements of Rx Drugs, etc. This gets into livestock feed and the livestock wind up on your dinner plate! Ah Yummy!

[@stephenmcelroyii7317]

Well the State of Florida has completely banned any form of Municipal solid waste from being used in any form of Agriculture whatsoever it cannot even be composted in fertilizer that is used in the neighborhood Garden or front lawn

[@Nomamegoogle]

Nice! So let's just trow on the rivers.

[@dennisboyd1712]

@@Nomamegoogle what idiot would do that? Many countries burn this & bury the ash as Bio Waste

[@grinningpinhead3961]

Awesome. Ive just landed a job hauling this stuff to various farms.

[@arnelarsen4073]

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[@grinningpinhead3961]

@@arnelarsen4073 thanks. It did nothing to change my mind about the job even remotely and i won't be quitting anytime soon.

[@waterline9877]

One step closer to soylent green

[@arnelarsen4073]

So how many heavy metals, toxic pharmaceuticals and industrial chemical waste is in Biosludge?

[@christopheroptimusprime2631]

Wait are poop turn into food next spring yep

[@franciscogonzalez6250]

Real organic! Whole food!

[@johnhill3706]

Just don’t use too much of it in one spot in one place at one time and do the research what they are

[@thenande]

This is probably used in many farms around the world.. Farmers just want to maximise profits and this is like waste disposal, they might even be paid to take it or at least it would be super cheap. Our fruits and vegetables come from all over the world, who knows if the farms they eere harvested from is using this kind of compost or not? Many countries will only test the produce for excessive pesticides and doesn't care what the farms do or use to grow their crops.

[@ilovecanines]

Shocking. I feel like I'm going to barf.

[@arnelarsen4073]

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[@bryanbradley6871]

LA is fine with using cow poo, but not human? They would rather have us put our waste in our water supply? Ya, they totally care...

[@c50ge]

There has to be a better way to spread the bio solids than using a payload

[@terrypearson5435]

I moved to an urban area (Bowling Green VA) three years ago to get away from the chaotic city stress. My young dog, around four years old, died within 90 days. My girlfriend has been I'll for about a year. And last but not least, my hair started falling out 6 months ago. My dog, my girl, and myself all have, or had, autoimmune diseases. May Sky (dog) rest in peace. It smells like rotting flesh when applied. Synagro is the company involved. Synagro is owned by the Carlyle Group. Carlyle is the largest private equity firm in the world. Our good friends from the Bush, Chenney, Bin Laden clan are involved. The sales pitch is free fertilizer. In reality Synagro dumps the toxic waste for free. Similar to the flouride in the water scam. If you think biosolids are safe, I've got a dead dog, sick girlfriend, and big chunks of hair that say otherwise. Thank you VA politicians. You've not only taxed me into oblivion. Now you have sold your constitutes out to the Carlyle Group, aka. Synagro. Business as usual, huh?

[@redemptionoverretribution1491]

is there mold in your house? Im not saying the sludge isn't the culprit just the symptoms u described is what we just went through in a moldy house

[@androidexample6104]

C'mon humans we are concerned of biosolids and other animal manure using it as compost, we are also concerned of chemical fertilizer but we need to realize that manure compost wether its from humans or animals the abundance of it is overwhelming while chemical fertilizer are just limited and will run out eventually i think what those debate should do is think of a way that can make those processed poop get cleaner not making it to shut down

[@jzj3207]

this is a sick world

[@samsungnewaccount927]

Please tell me the facility name that is used to process it.

[@YouTubeBlueButterflies]

Looks like black gold to me!!

[@nickkrikorian5909]

soylent green is real

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

People need to start using dry composting toilets instead of pooping in their drinking water. Dry toilet deposits can be fully composted and safely used as organic fertiliser. The sludge in this video does not contain just human waste. It also contains all kinds of man made chemicals people use to scrub toilets do the laundry ect. If it was just human excrement collected from dry toilets, it would not be a problem.

[@robertsmith5095]

I was with you until you said fertilizer. Ok if you non consumables in a way that cannot filter by watering into consumables. Maybe trees for lumber for from plants for human consumption, plants for ethanol and plants for animal feed.

[@blakehubert18]

agreed. many people in first world country's also have contaminated poop because of certain pills. That's why i only trust my own poop haha.

[@wilsonator2008]

I’d personally be OK with Biosolids being used to grow decorative plants such as flowers, shrubs and bushes, but I wouldn’t personally be OK with food grown with biosolids.

[@bigvic8401]

Can't get upset , people are extremely busy watching vine videos more concerned about likes on fb page, personally this video should have more views and likes. With so much sludge produced daily we are consuming bi products of this stuff more frequent than we would ever like to imagine. I don't think it's safe, I bet many chemicals are added to the manure before it's finally rolled out, and to think of the layers and layers of this stuff that is used on the land season after season, the residue that is collected after years of the land consuming human fecal matter ... Awwwww. SALMONELLA !!! Don't tell me otherwise, let's put all the science behind, this is plain blunt common sense . Gross

[@robertsmith5095]

Why are you saying fecal matter? Everyone goes lala over what actually gets flushed: Condoms Semen/sperm Discharge from their penises and vaginas from sexually transmitted diseases Period blood Blood with HIV Feces with hepatitis Sick green thick hawk spit Snot and vomit Drugs Pharmaceuticals which is in the biosolids end products because you can't remove it. And everything else that gets flushed regularly. I've worked in treatment plants, you always see condoms there always which means everything else on my list gets there as well. Ever open a coconut or bite a juicy watermelon? Where does all that water come from? Only a sick satanist (though satanists are sick) would give a baby or little child cereal with an old "disinfected" condom floating around. The worldly society are hypocrites they fuss over a long hair obviously from the waitresses head on their place then eat loads of this stuff with EVERYTHING in it! I can wait until YESHUA GOD ALMIGHTY returns to take over. A bunch of babies thinking their grown because their physical body got bigger running the world.

[@dennisboyd9557]

You are what you eat

[@sourcecreator2222]

Well done bro!

[@raphael5165]

*Good Lord ! Are these people trying to destroy the synthetic fertilizer industry ?*

[@arizonabarb51]

Of course it is not safe. Güacala!

[@janghishmandal9375]

Nice video SIR. Thanks 😃👏💐

[@arnelarsen4073]

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[@benbencedemeyibrakalm6491]

I personally don’t want burgers in my garden

[@kcufhitcbebutuoy5016]

i would wear a gas mask

[@raphael5165]

*It needs less treatment. Take directly from the toilet to the farm to compost it.*

[@nitishkannan2919]

They only use that sludge to grow greens that feed cattle

[@chiefschillaxn1781]

This would work if everyone didn't eat garbage and drugs.

[@sean3261]

why do my California oranges taste like pee? ohhh..

[@prabhu3399]

ha ha ha

[@RAHULSAINI-kt2kn]

Manure from waste is the only option, chemical deposits are going to run out one day

[@arnelarsen4073]

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[@tehtapemonkey]

Just feed it all to the Shrike

[@stanh8365]

1:20-1:45 Yeah what about all those condems, hmmm maybe biodegradable condems should be a thing

[@treefrog123a]

They may test for it, but do they allow it..... Yes they do.... There are some irridation wont kill

[@bigvic8401]

So that cucumber salmonella outbreak umm ... just connecting the dots

[@jimmyhill9843]

where I'm from this stuff is only allowed to be put on crops used for animal feed only not for crops used for human consumption and I don't even like it being used for animal consumption because it all comes right back to us anyway...

[@ginagreen3121]

That is one big pile of **** You will wash your hands before you eat anything. - Ian Malcolm

[@sheepseven7588]

WOW JESUS WILL BE HERE SOON THIS IS AN ABOMINATION

[@ingvar1996]

this is how the ecosystem has worked for millions of years, now humans have just industrialized the process.... what does the return of Jesus have to do with this?

[@KeeperOfThe10]

@@ingvar1996 Because we humans are increasingly doing things that God didn't intend. It wasn't until the early 1900s that they started using human waste for fertilizers. So, yes, just like God destroyed and restored or cleansed the world during Noah's flood because of the widespread filthy behavior, he will be returning to do the same because of our filthy behavior which includes much more than composting human waste. God has already provided for our abundance and we wouldn't have to worry about increasing the productivity of crops if we would just obey him. Leviticus 25:18-22.

[@sheepseven7588]

​@@KeeperOfThe10very well said Jesus is soon to return I pray people turn from disobedience ❤❤❤

[@pmitchell6328]

NO THANK YOU !!

[@demsmongalam5449]

Anyway its life cycle .we people are dust

[@kcufhitcbebutuoy5016]

and soon vertical farming.

[@treefrog123a]

Not whole truth!

[@goblins2k5]

PFAS

[@robertsmith5095]

Yuck a condom 1:15

[@kingofrandom4816]

whats wrong with that?

[@bryanbradley6871]

4:29 protect the environment? It's completely natural for the environment 😂 humans have been doing it for 100,000+ years and animals been doing it for millions and have never harmed the environment, only fed it

[@mitchellstocker6191]

cow shits cheaper/easier/better to make fertilizer with

[@onnietalone3181]

To bad it could not be caught before we put it in the water, doggie bag, would compost over two years would be way more pure and less toxic? the smell, lol, its in us all, lol too much, I think it wou;d reclaim the desert in that dry state before water is added, ? no one talks about number two,, seconed to none, no,,,,s---*

[@ericbarritt304]

Don't think the County should be tilling the boi-solids into the soil. They should be spreading it over top of the soil instead.

[@pinky9875]

omg!no way!

[@williamlewin9610]

You notice anything organic and safe gets bad rap.

[@jailahackett3520]

Eww gross

[@Jessy-qx4yr]

I preferred cow poop than human as fertilizer .. at least I know cow only eats grass .. :D