Nature provided us with a system to convert the waste products of humans and
animals into materials that plants need to grow and product the food source that are
required to sustain life.
In the very simplified definition of natures cycle, various form of facultative bacteria are
a part of the digestive system. The facultative bacteria can live in two conditions or
states. The job assigned to the facultative bacteria along with support bacteria is to
convert waste into plant food.
Facultative bacteria can live and do the job assigned by nature in two defined states or
conditions.
Anaerobic or the septic state is the condition where the bacteria do not have a readily
available source of oxygen, such as in the digestive system of humans and animals.
The anaerobic state also exist in out of the digestive system in non-aerated
concentrations of waste. For example, ponds used to contain waste.
Aerobic state is the condition where the bacteria have a readily available source of oxygen, such as air or from compounds that can supply the bacteria with the oxygen necessary to produce and retain the aerobic state,
In the anaerobic state, the bacteria must obtain the oxygen needed to survive by
utilizing the oxygen in various compounds in the bio mass. Because the oxygen is not
readily available, the bacteria do a work around by producing enzymes that allow the
various available compounds to be reduced or release the oxygen contained in the
various molecules so the bacteria can use the oxygen.
The basic by-products of the anaerobic bacterial process are sulfides, ammonia gas,
and methane gas. Small quantities of sulfides will produce Hydrogen Sulfide gas
(H2S). The H2S gas is a very bad product. H2S gas smells bad to warm humans of
the danger. H2S gas when mixed with moisture or water, forms Sulfuric Acid.