Septic and Waste Treatment

Rapid industrialization over the latter part of the 1900’s has had a detrimental effect on the Earth’s environment. The polluting of our fresh and salt water sources have lead to deformities, birth defects, sickness, and death in the developing and developed world. For decades, environmental groups have been discussing these problems and their effects to come over our and future generations. Very few of them have offered solutions. Effective Microorganisms offers solutions to most of these problems!

Many of the problems in the environment revolve around “wastes” and what to do with them. Wastewater treatment is almost entirely a biological process, using beneficial microorganisms to digest wastes and take advantage of their beneficial by-products such as oxygen and vitamins. Composting is a biological method of managing mostly solid wastes into a soil amendment. Bio remediation is the use of microorganisms and plants to breakdown unwanted substances that were released into our environment. Landfills are an antiquated method of burying unwanted “wastes” that could be otherwise recycled into other useful products if proper methods are applied.

Nature has a powerful cleansing ability, often taking long periods to run through its cycles. Nature uses microorganisms to break down substances. This long process is generally done through an anaerobic (without air) process. Humans, however, like things to go quickly and therefore manage the wastes by using the faster aerobic (with air) processes. Most conventional thinking focuses on aerobic treatments because of gross generalizations about anaerobic bacteria being the "pathogens" or the "odour producers". The natural processes quickly revert to anaerobic processes when left on their own and will often turn putrefactive (rotting). However, another method of treating wastes is to go through a fermentative (preserving) process that involves less energy, prevents the growth of pathogens, odours, and results in by-products such as amino acids and antioxidants (vitamins).