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Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human

Composting Toilets & the Codes and Policies that Support them

Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th

We face a global sanitation crisis. Among the 3.6 billion people who still live with toilets that harm household, community and environmental health, are nearly 2 million Americans, including on the Olympic Peninsula. Inadequate sanitation systems spread fecal pathogens into streams, threatening the services of ecosystems, and through the soils into aquifers, harming drinking water.

We rarely talk about this. It unfairly affects marginalized communities. It's largely invisible!

Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 is the world’s promise to ensure that by 2030 everyone has access to a toilet connected to a sanitation system that effectively removes and treats human waste. Even the United States is off track to meet SDG 6.2. Isn't it time we started MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE?

Tour of the Port Townsend Compost Facility with Bliss Morris

A big shout out to Bliss Morris, Port Townsend’s Wastewater Treatment Operations Manager, for showing us around the City’s Compost Facility. On our November 7th tour, we learned the workings of this sprawling facility that provides multiple services to residents and businesses throughout Jefferson County. Our group of 13 was unbothered by the cold and rain as Bliss explained the magic of composting to treat biosolids and produce Class A compost for local gardeners and landscapers. More on the Compost Facility here.

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Got Ideas? Got Questions? About workforce housing? Email Kelsey or visit the Housing Solutions Network. About sanitation? Email Carol or visit PHLUSH.

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