Check out this composting toilet system. Fairly simple to set up and run with so many benefits to be gained for your garden.
Makes you wonder why we spend millions pumping this great resource into ponds, landfill and out to sea.
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it’s only a treasure for plants after the bacteria (pathogens) have died off. otherwise, if you put raw sewage on your plants, they will carry those pathogens (salmonella, ecoli, hepatitis…) and you can’t just wash it off.
These guys do things really weirdly. Don’t use them as an example. Get the humanure handbook and read it cover to cover. Urine + Feces do not have to be seperated. All you have to do is balance the C and N by adding sawdust, yard waste and some straw as cover material in a compost pile. 1-2 buckets is all a family of 5 needs. Plus, of course, two compost piles.
Uve been brainwashed by modern society into thinking feces/urine is a polutant!
It is treaure for plants!
Never forget this and u will be happey and rich!
Exactly.
Urine is a great fertilizer. I always save mine in 2 liter bottles, then after keeping them in the sun for a month to ripen pour it in my garden.
Sprinkle a little dirt on top and ur!!
I’ve been reading about composting toilets, but this is the first video of a complete, working system I’ve seen.
So holes are drilled in the bottom of each barrel and the liquid drains out to where? All over the floor in the composting bathroom and all over the ground when the barrel is full and placed outside?
That can’t be right, can it? If so, the liquid would become a home and ground pollutant because it was never allowed to compost. Can someone clarify this for me. Thanks.
modern sewage systems, (septic, sewers, etc) are VERY unclean to our environment as they are filled with standing water and foster VERY harmful gases and toxic waste. Think about it this way - ALL natural waste should be allowed to re-nurish the earth from which our food comes.
The fact that there is such a vast array of composting toilet systems is a testament to how easily and safely done it can be, how natural it is, and that we need to get over our cultural phobias and start doing what is right and follows common sense.
I would refer those interested in composting toilets to look into a book called “The Humanure Handbook”. It is very well written and has an enormous amount of USEABLE information. Good fortune
It’s sad to think about all the food we eat being permnently removed from the food cycle with our current sewage systems, not to mention that we’re defecating in our drinking water. Composting toilet systems solve these problems and turn a waste into a resource.
“Experts” still recommend not using even this compost directly on plants or on soil growing root crops, but this is mainly done out of convention rather than objective risk assesment. In most cases 2 years is much more extreme than nessecary. Perinnial above ground crops, such as berry bushes and fruit and nut trees, amoung many others are completely without risk of carrying pathogens as they never come in contact with them.
E-coli and other vectors are only spreadable if someone using the system already has that disease to spread it. Even then composting kills them. A two year compost period will kill ALL pathogens, even the hardiest narliest ones.
Contrary to popular belief composting toilets are more sanitary than contemperary waste removal/sewage systems. Primarily becuase they produce compost, not sewage. Cleanliness standards must be meet but that is also true of the contemporary system.
yep for garden use.
The contents are in bins for more than a year
and only spread out when they have turned into
a rich beautiful compost…they have been doing
this for many years now.
amazing, this system is better than the actual system (flow water)……….also can improve
For garden use? Any e coli worries?
No, it has a vent and saw dust is also added.
Quite amazing.