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  toss or flush

  Good point alaskalainen, but if we assume that most people's solid waste goes to an engineered landfill, and not a town dump, then we can probably say that the waste will experience hell. A capped landfill will have non-aerobic stages and really high temperatures that could kill most anything. Before the landfill is capped, however, rain can carry contaminates to the ground. The goal of most of these newer landfills is to contain the leaching and send it off to the water treatment facility, but most landfills have problems with this...especially older ones.

  So I guess the best thing to do, based on the differences of experiences in this thread, is to try to determine how your city deals with your poop water and with your garbage. In my city, water given to the sea or to the people is treated in the highest regard (I guess because of the sensitivity of the surrounding ecosystem) but the landfills have already proven to be a little less strict in their standards...so here I would trust my cat poo to the sewer. But it might be the opposite elsewhere.On A review of non-clay cat litters posted 1 year, 1 month ago 32 Responses

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  uhh, yeah

  "keep your cat's poop out of the waste treatment system (unless you have a septic system that never needs pumping)"

  This is backwards thinking. If you are connected to a city's waste treatement system, they employ the use of bacteria-killing technology such as UV rays or chlorine before releasing the water. If you have a septic system, the bacteria are more likely to survive and make it to your drain field...which then trickles down to the water table and eventually flows out to sea.

  If your waste treatment facility is proven responsible for releasing contaminated water, then it is ignoring federal regulations. In fact the last wastewater treatment facility I went to (in Miami) produced treated water that was actually achieving drinking water quality standards! So please don't knock your city's treament system if you don't know how it works. :)On A review of non-clay cat litters posted 1 year, 2 months ago 32 Responses

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  More complicated than that.

  Action should happen immediately, I agree. But the Everglades has proven to be a more complex system than anyone ever imagined.

  While we all stubbornly believe that every blunder we make can be fixed, maybe the Everglades problem is proving that our mistakes are sometimes irreversible. Maybe it is time we man-up and admit that this is one mistake that can never be fixed completely.

  As of right now, there are thousands of papers detailing the results of painstaking studies that have been done on the Florida Everglades. Yet with the completion of every study, the picture of the Everglades becomes more and more complex. It's not just a big wash tub that we can just fill back up with water. In fact, simply throwing water on the sucker might cause even more problems. And because human habitation has taken root, we have to consider flood control.

  Its a jumbled mess that might never be put back together. But not all is bleak. The restoration project, while not entirely successfull at its intended job, has already proven successfull at providing more information about the complexity of wetland ecosystems than ever before. Lessons learned from this project can be (and indeed are being) used in other areas around the world. The uniqueness of the Everglades has painted a more complete picture of the biogeochemical processes and the hydrology for any watershed.On Everglades restoration going slowly, poorly, federal report says posted 1 year, 2 months ago 2 Responses