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excreta

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Matters to be excreted.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. Brian Aldiss

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us. John Brunner

She is becoming afraid to go out. Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist,' they chant. Enoch Powell

One can see it but must not say, when the master of a house passes excreta in a pot. African Proverb

A composting toilet collects human excreta which is then added to a compost heap together with sawdust and straw or other carbon rich materials, where pathogens are destroyed to some extent. Source: Internet

For practical purposes, when actual defecation and excreta are spoken of, it is either through creative euphemism or with a vague and fairly rigid literalism. Source: Internet

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