Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Why we must design for zero sewage (101a)

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March 8, 2010
Subject: FW: [Pharmwaste] PA collection event article
This is why we must design and build for zero sewage. We have the answer and we are installing it all across the country
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_670536.html
Task force aims to keep unwanted medications from waterways
The Southwestern PA Household Hazardous Waste Task Force wants your unwanted
pharmaceuticals, an effort it hopes will spare rivers from contamination.
The May 15 collection will be the task force's first in Allegheny County.
It might be tempting to flush old prescription, over-the-counter and
veterinary medications down the toilet when they expire or no longer are
useful. But Michael Stepaniak, the task force's environmental program
coordinator, said doing so threatens fish and wildlife that depend on the
region's waterways, which are a source of drinking water for the Pittsburgh
area.
"We want to not only help protect the environment ... but also make people
aware that flushing things down a toilet doesn't mean the hazard has gone
away," he said. "It's just moved."
Dave Mazza, regional director of the Pennsylvania Resources Council, the task
force's administrator, said conventional wastewater treatment cannot
effectively eliminate pharmaceutical compounds from water.
"On a national level ... upwards of 200 million pounds of pharmaceutical waste
is being produced every year," Mazza said. "The need for collection events(like this) is evident."
Over-the-counter medications will be transported to Cincinnati, where they
will be incinerated. Controlled substances will be burned in a police
incinerator.
State and federal environmental groups for years have studied how trace
amounts of household chemicals and prescription and illicit drugs flushed from
homes end up in fish and wildlife that depend on Pennsylvania's waterways.
Pharmaceuticals in the water have been blamed for severe reproductive problems
in many types of fish. For example, the endangered razorback sucker and male
fathead minnow have been found with lower sperm counts and damaged sperm,
while some walleyes and male carp have taken on female traits.
"Flushing them down the toilet ... kills some bacteria in waterways and not
others," said Conrad Volz, director of the Center for Healthy Environments and
Communities at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. "It
changes the ecology of our rivers in ways we can't even predict."
Since 2003, the task force has conducted 39 collections in eight counties and
disposed of nearly 2 million pounds of household chemicals, Stepaniak said.
Collection details
The Southwestern PA Household Hazardous Waste Task Force will collect unwanted
medications from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 15 in the Hampton Community Center on
McCully Road.
Cost will be $3 per person. Advance registration is required. For details or
to register, call 412-488-7452 or visit swpahhw.org. A professional
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Why we must design for zero sewage (101)
Please see this most frightening scenario-----link--- Considering all of the negative, non-sustainable aspects of the flush toilet and all of its associated infrastructure, this video link visualizes just the latest and most serious condemning and heinous indictment of the flush toilet.
http://organizations.plattsburgh.edu/biologyclub/
As you watch this link, Remember that the flush toilet and all of its ubiquitous infrastructure is the essence of perfection for ensuring that the fate of all of these endocrine disrupting compounds that we excrete and rinse from our bodies is effectively re-distributed throughout all of the waters of the planet to become tomorrows drinking water. There is presently, no known reliable, sustainable method for filtering or detoxifying these compounds from water-borne sewage.
Friday, March 5, 2010
How to accomplish Zero Sewage
Briefly--Our technology does away with any discharge of sewage of any kind. Also there is no production/ discharge of the sewage,"Greenhouse Gasses" (GHGs): (CH-4) methane and/ or (N2O) Nitrous Oxide. Our design systems "mineralize" all organic loadings down to biogenic CO-2 and water vapor. All phosphorus is sequestered, all urea > ammonia/N is nitrified to NO-3 and sequestered. All residual waters/ liquids are evaporated within the chamber. The system including the toilet fixtures uses zero functional water. The system requires near zero maintenance, no additives and very little energy (all systems are designed to alternately use solar and/ or wind power. All EDC's, PPCP's, hormone disruptors from excretions and graywater are permanently sequestered within the chamber and eventually detoxified by naturally occurring algae and mycelium. When the design sheltered, "Constructed Woodland" is set into motion the entire system becomes self sustaining without any monitoring, maintenance or interference from man. There are no moving parts within the chamber. As long as there is air (oxygen), warmth (sunshine) on the planet and the food source that we supply (what we would call waste) the trillions of aggressive organisms will self-sustain and flourish to infinity without any assistance from man. Every biological dynamic that was ever required to perform this process has already been here for millions of years and operating on its own without man. Man arrived, decided to use a flush toilet and completely destroyed this miraculous, natural process.