cwhitt said:Well - the books said it is sterile while in your body, but as it passes out of you, it becomes technically non-sterile
Urine is sterile, unless you have a UTI.
Test have shown that it take at minimum 1-3 days for bacteria to grow in urine, now if you pee in your compost or on your ground do you think that in 1-3 days your garden is going to get a UTI?
I pee on my compost pile, on occasions when I am outside and have to take a whizz, better than leaving a spot on the lawn that is extra green.
Allthe -- OH my God, I am going to get Bubonic Plague from my garden if pee or poop there -- is at best ignorant paranoia.
Tests are done in sterile labs with no other part of nature affecting what ever they want to look at, unless you live in an area with a local disease infecting the majority of the population with an infectious disease you chance of it affecting you in any way from their urine or poop is half way between none and next to none.
One summer I spent a good part of a day standing in a foot and a half of human sludge shoveling it, literally, into a vacuum tube intake.
Most of the rest of the summer I crawled down into sewer manholes shoveling sand like debri out of the trought that carries sewage, without gloves.
Outside of cute little bugs crawling out of my nose every now and then it did not affect me one bit.
