Last month, Time Magazine ran a feature story on a fairly obscure environmental movement to bypass traditional wastewater treatment by composting human waste. The waste, mixed with sawdust and allowed to break down into nutrient-rich soil, has spawned the term “humanure.’’ According to Time (www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1945764,00.html), some proponents of humanure are rural, back-to-nature folks you might expect to be interested in, and well-equipped to convert waste into fertilizer in their own backyards. But the story also mentioned the efforts of a handful of city dwellers dedicated to composting their wastes to reduce water usage in municipal sewer systems.Will this phenomenon have
