it is amazing the systems humans have come up with to deal with their poop. We should be taking care of our personal poop rather than passing the buck like most of us do - and it ends up not being dealt with very responsibly in the end! This is important! we must deal with our poop or soon it will be the only thing we have!!

cold shit doesnt smell, unlike warm shit.

There are a number of commercial units widely available, and DIY plans are common. For other small scale systems of human waste handling, and outdoor (’Outhouse’ or ‘Dunny’) styles of toilets, research latrine, pit latrine, and arborloo or tree bog, all of which are forms of less controlled psychrophilic or mesophilic decomposition, and may not protect ground water from nutrient or pathogen contamination, provide optimum nutrient recycling, or be appropriate in urban settings.

A composting toilet is a closed unit, not connected to a sewage system or septic tank, used to receive, contain, and compost human waste via aerobic biodegradation. In replacing a standard flush toilet the purpose of these units is the conservation of water resources otherwise used for flushing, while avoiding release of potentially pathogenic materials into the environment, and conserving useful nutrients for fertilizing home gardens.

question… what was the smell like in that last bucket she opened?
i guess it was dirt smell? total compost?

Mind you; I personally wouldn’t put holes in the bottom of the barrells as any pathogens would get drained out of the compost (and into the water-table) before they die out.

I put the human “disgust ” of what we produce as “shit” as one of our major problems to deal with.
It has created a cleaner than thou mentality…hence all our products to kill 99% of all known germs. We need to be less anal retentive and start being productive… it will save you a fortune in fertilizers, and “bought” shit.
Right I’m off to pee on my roses.

when my husband and I build our house, we will be installing a composting toilet. This is a great way to recycle!

That was a massive mountain of shit, but what you saw was sawdust covering that mountain.

what do you mean ‘it is amazing what the mind will come up with to recycle things’. this is the normal cycle of things… it is amazing that people poo into water which then needs to be clearified to be (in some cases) drunk afterwards.

I have seen it all now. Not sure how I feel about it but I have mixed feelings. I would have to wrap my mind around composting my own poop to put around my fruit trees. It is amazing what the mind of man will come up with to recycle things.

It’s great to hear most people that comment see the good in this. I agree that urine doesn’t need to be separate. Of course, I also read the humanure handbook. Jenkins has a YouTube page with a bunch of stuff on it.

Did you see that massive mountain of shit in the bucket!?

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.