Posted: 12/3/2010 10:14:01 AM EDT
Pardon me, I'm new here. Been reading up on the prep side, but found little on the aftermath side:
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1)Hogs and dogs for food scraps. Fire for the rest. 1885 garbage disposal FTW.
2) Composting toilets are simple tech. A grand will buy one but one can be built for next to nothing if you look around the internet. Build one 3) Fire......If you are worried at all as to why they died. |
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Food scraps would go to the chickens and the compost.
Human waste would be the outhouse. Burial would go back to a pine box and a hole dug in the ground. Fairly quickly there wouldnt be much other waste. Most other things would be recycled. Paper to start fires. Tin cans might become pots to start plants in etc. |
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Food scraps would go to the chickens and the compost. Human waste would be the outhouse. Burial would go back to a pine box and a hole dug in the ground. Fairly quickly there wouldnt be much other waste. Most other things would be recycled. Paper to start fires. Tin cans might become pots to start plants in etc. This! Layer pellets are going to be in short supply as well... ETA: just realized we're in the same part of the country 
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| Time to learn about the wonders of composting. And using dead relations as fertilizer. And the mil guide on field sanitation to keep away cholera etc. (what was that old Civil War persoinfication / title for camp diseases? it was something like the Four Horsemen or Dr something) |
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This gets discussed now and then and some searches might turn up answers from people who won't post in this thread. I seperate most trash now. I live in the country and have a burn barrel for things that burn easily, cardboard and paper and similar items. Anything that is food can be used to feed animals or be put in the garden for compost. So if it is banana peels or leftovers no one will eat that gets put out to feed animals or degrade into the ground. I don't have an actual compost pile but if things got really bad I would probably make a small compost bucket or something beyond my just dumping it in the pile of stuff the neighbor is going to till into the garden come spring. Going to the bathroom is something to do a lot of reading on. If you are on sewers then you need to understand that when the pumping stations fail everything will run downhill and those at the bottom of the hill might have a basement full of nasty stuff while those up top are still pouring buckets of water down the toilet to flush their stuff into the sewer. I live in the country and am on a septic system. While a septic system seems darn simple people all the time use the wrong toilet paper or flush stuff they should not flush and cause problems so understand a septic system is a good start. More than a few hunting cabins in the woods have a home made septic system made from a few 55 gallon drums buried in the ground. You can also go with the outhouse idea and I would buy some quicklime or whatever folks use to keep the smell down during the hot months. You need to think about this a good bit depending on what you use for drinking water, if you have a shallow well I would be rather picky about where the outhouse or septic tank would live. As far as animals that die, this will vary somewhat but I just see coyote bait if the animal was a working animal. If it is a person or beloved pet then I figure we are back to family cemetaries and I know more than one person who had their pet cremated and plans to be buried with the ashes of their pet. Come bad times I don't expect to be able to cremate anything but if someone had a beloved pet it might get buried in the same plot of land they are buried in. Back to normal trash though, if you look at what you throw away you might realize that come bad times you won't toss nearly as much. The paper and cardboard stuff would be used to start fires, either in your woodstove or campfires outside or you would trade it to others who need it. You won't be buying a lot of new stuff packed in blister packs so you won't have a whole lot of plastic to deal with. Metal cans and glass jars can be rinsed out and reused. They may not seal back up very well but you can take a metal can and make a candle holder or candle lantern out of it or pound it flat and use the metal to patch something that needs metal for a patch. Plastic containers will slowly degrade most likely, thinking about milk jugs and what not here, so while they can be used to transport water for a bit I don't expect them to last all that long. Once they degrade into weak plastic that is useless I would bury em most likely. Things like worn out clothes or shoes will be repaired time after time. And when they can't be considered a pair of pants any more they will be turned into a quilt or used as patches to repair other pants. A lot of folks buy coffee in the metal cans because they think it stores better, I agree, but I also figure if bad times come the metal cans will have a lot more uses than the plastic cans. There are some military manuals on this stuff and reading up on waste disposal and body disposal is important because it can cause a lot of diseases and problems with drinking water if not done properly. And same with trash I guess. If things get really bad I kind of figure the neighbors around here will let each other know what they have for trash they are thinking about burying. Someone might have ideas on how to use something or have projects you don't want to consider and they might be able to use your stuff. I am not huge on being green because of how much money some places are spending on it. But I looked at my trash about a year ago and started sorting through it. Once I started composting what would degrade and burning what burns I had very little trash. I am not interested in having a pile of empty cans I have no use for right now but come bad times I will be making candle lanterns or melting old candles down into the cans to make new candles. I don't haul much to the dump these days. I can go 3 weeks before I need to take a couple cans to the dump, I more often in the summer due to the smell. |