Vanguard | June 09, 2010 | 17 comments

How to Grow Organic with Human Waste: Scenes From Vanguard

Adam_Yamaguchi

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Because the demand for toilets is on the rise in Indonesia's East Java region, the sanitation industry is growing. Toilet entrepreneurs are creating all kinds of business ventures--even recycling human waste. In this scene from Vanguard's "The World's Toilet Crisis," correspondent Adam Yamaguchi can't resist getting his hands dirty.

"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.


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  • XelaZav
  • QuestionGeek
  • artemis6
  • twohawks
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      twohawks  

    • This rates in the "no limits" department, for sure.
      Adam, make sure you got no cuts in your hands when you're doin' that shit.

      I wonder about the eco-impact in the area all that waste is simply being dumped for processing. My dad mentioned something about concerns over the impact raw sewage has, or even treated waste, on water resources nearby. such as wells, or even the water table. I would have to do some research to understand what he was on about, but he implied there was some sort of risks involved.

      Adam, if you are listening... like to hear something about this from you (and anyone else here with some knowledge about that ;^)

    • 1 year ago
  • HaloedGriot
    • +1
      HaloedGriot  

    • I study Environmental Health Science...we cover this material extensively. Lewis Mumford talks about this idea as well in his design of the metropolitan city, which is meant to provide the most efficient way of life possible, while making little to no waste. Mr. Sakinem and Mr. Wibowo's idea is very good, though if they had access to the technology we have here in the West, they would be booming businessmen by now. It may take longer, but I wish them all the best. This is a wonderful idea...its the types of jobs that the average everyday person find disgusting that we will find as the opportunity to make someone rich in the next 50 years in the Green Tech Boom.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • AutifK
  • artemis6
  • QuestionGeek
  • fernweher
  • viggytoo
  • Mekha_Desh
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      Mekha_Desh  

    • Adam all I can say is wow. You never stop amazing me with your level of dedication to your job. Dude I was thinking that's a lot of shit and then you started calling it shit- priceless.

    • 1 year ago
  • Seymore_Applebaum
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      Seymore_Applebaum  

    • There are toilets made in North America that turn human waste into organic fertilizer. They aren't cheap but they do the job sanitarily. Also, more and more people are using uren as fertilizer. Now there are fewer and fewer reasons not to grow organic vegetables and fruits. Check out Window Farms (www.windowfarms.org).

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • Bert_Barnes

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