Saturday’s Deposit

In just ten minutes, I took care of a week's worth of toilet waste and food scraps. -Dig an indentation from the center of the pile. -Dump in food scraps followed by compost toilet contents. -Rinse out both containers and dump water into center of pile. -Cover the pile with leaves and dampen. Done!

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Sawdust Dumpstering

About once every six months, I make a trip out to the wood shop dumpster to get sawdust for my compost toilet system. I checked with the shop in advance to see that they don't use any treated wood and asked permission to stop by and fill up on sawdust. Of course it benefits them since I'm lightening their waste load and I get free material to process my cat litter and compost toilet. Videos coming soon...

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Still Cookin’!

We just had a quick snowstorm and it's going down to 7F tonight... the pile is hanging in there just above 90F.  It's cool how the pile is melting the snow off the top. I feel like I could do a better job insulating the thing... this weekend's deposit will hopefully keep the pile going. Every time I open the tarp I worry that I'm going to lose all the heat, so I work as quickly as possible to keep the momentum going.  I want to take a picture of the steam barreling off of it next time. Would be nice to stay warm in there... well, maybe not!  

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