Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Will someone tell the animals ?

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  • bobzer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s a lot of bad shit in our poop that isn’t in most wild animal shit.

    Particularly transmissible diseases for other humans.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also were visitors.

      At least in major watersheds the primary reason for picking up dog poop is because of the insane nitrogen content of the insane amounts of dog poop that’s generated.

      Potential disease vector is 2, then it’s icky gross is 3

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        is there a general term for this? it’s something that applies basically whenever we humans do anything these days and yet barely anyone thinks about it, it’d be good to have a word to throw at people when telling them about it

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Spicy surprise

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.

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    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He meant to tell animals not to shit less then 30m from the trail.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Make sure to know which direction the trail is when walking 30 m away from it. People died following this rule. Well, I know of one person that died because of it.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    tbf 30m is an arbitrary distance, just go as far as you can reach without losing sight of the trail and maybe dig an extra deep hole instead.

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