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Joshua Lederberg

Goluecke on composting

I called him on October 13th (Richmond Office 235-6000, Ext. 227 -
UC Berkeley 642-4011).

His main interests appear to be in composting for dealing with municipal
wastes, He referred several times to the Beltsville Maryland project as its
relates to sewage sludge. He did suggest that I write him a note requesting
the reports since 1970 and this should be addressed to him at University

of California, Richmond Field Station, 1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, Ca.
94804,

He also gave me the name of a Sim van der Ryn, P.O. Box 700, Point Reyes
Station, Ca. 94956, in connection with the Farallongs Institute, I gather

this is in a rural commune context and they are interested in developing
waterless composting toilets. However, they were relying on him for scientific
judgment rather than the converse,

Goluecke is consulting in Mexico with Toluca in Guadalajara but this is
primarily in a municipal context not a rural one, He advises people there

not to use the products of municipal composting on root crops and is therefore
obviously quite skeptical about the reliability of the sanitation.

He gave me a reference by Knoll, K.H., 1961, Compost Science 2:35, on the
question of non-thermal disinfection, He did not know of anyone else outside
of Beltsville who would be able to help on the rural context. He was quite
in agreement that things easily could go wrong.

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