Making compost in a zero gravity environment
NASA is
offering a 30,000 dollar bounty to the right idea that helps
mitigate human waste in space suits for 6 continuous days.
Maybe some genetically
modified Black Soldier Fly grubs could live in a backpack compartment
and convert body toxins into something more safe with the added bonus
of space compost.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Collecting the solid waste would be the hardest part, I imagine.
In a vacuum environment wou could simply let the moisure boil off. That would reduce the volume and kill most if not all bacteria.