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In centuries past, night soil was used as fertilizer and there was a business case for collecting it. Today, human waste is avoided as fertilizer for a number of reasons (hormones and other medication residues, pathogens), and so there is no more business case for collecting it. One would have to advocate solid waste collection as a new public utility, and that might be an uphill battle.



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