Suggest you read this
post in another forum from a guy who unknowingly created something that behaves like TP by a combination of keeping chickens and periodic burning.
I can imagine an early Amerindian discussing something similar with his mates. "All I did was burn our smelly stuff there for a few months, and now look at it ..."
I'm beginning to wonder if terra preta implies a total rethink of household waste separation and collection as it is done today in so-called developed countries. Even recycling seems too stupid now, and household chemicals more of a problem than I thought.
M
