httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUNOsMrO1k Jenkins adds material to one compost bin for a year, then switches to the second bin for year two. At the end of year two, the contents of the first bin are ready to use for gardening. Pathogens are not present. It's pretty awesome that he's been doing this for 30+ years with no issues at all...safe to say he knows what he's talking about!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_DQyO2CPV0 The commentary on this one is unanimous: Compost toilets worked wonderfully, even at a 500 person music festival. I wonder what to do when you have a festival somewhere that doesn't have a spot for a compost pile nearby...perhaps a pile that stays on a flatbed? Compost toilets don't smell. Use sawdust. It masks the smell best, and it smells good as it is. Compost toilets don't use nasty chemicals like what is found in your typical porta-potty. There's little to no bugs. After several days of using porta-potties, the smell and amount of bugs is pretty nasty. This video was five years ago...I wonder how many other events have taken on this system... if this doesn't sell you on how great humanure composting is, I don't know what…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZwOqLJvBA In the spirit of humanure composting, I started looking at other videos on Youtube besides those created by the master Joseph Jenkins to see what's happening. After reading Humanure Handbook twice, it was interesting to see this system in place and wonder where they adapted it from. My main question is simply why they go to all the trouble of having dozens of buckets sitting around with small quantities of material in them when they could just build two 5'x5'x5' compost bins and do it that way instead. Either way, composting is composting and it's great to see this going on. Also, regarding their compost toilet, she mentions the only odors being from when there's too much urine...this can simply be solved by adding more cover materials. I started…