[SustainableTompkins] dealing with cat litter

[Thomas Shelley]

At 11:31 AM 1/28/2008 -0500, you wrote, in part:
>. I hadn't thought about making a separate cat
>waste compost and using it outside of the vegetable garden.
>
>Does this seem like a plausible idea, or just wacky....part deleted...

Dear James and Friends--No, this should work perfectly well.  And some 
folks are now doing this, apparently with great success.  Human waste 
compost, properly composted, can be used for human food production, but I 
think that cat waste compost is still reserved for non-human food 
composting (flowers, trees, etc.).  Thanks for your interesting post.  Tom

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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb