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Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors

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76 points rntn | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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amarant ◴[31 Aug 25 20:39 UTC] No.45086858[source]▶
Why is human fecal matter worse for the environment than animal fecal matter?

Something in our diets?

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1. theshrike79 ◴[01 Sep 25 06:58 UTC] No.45090202[source]▶
If one person poops in the river, it's most likely fine.

If 1000 people poop in the river, it's contaminated for everyone downstream.