Holy Crap! My Very Own Compost Toilet.

After nearly a month of simply having a 5 gallon bucket and some sawdust, I finally built my own proper compost toilet! It cost me a total of about $20 and two hours of work to get it done...well worth it.  This lives in my basement, but I brought it outside to snap a well-lit photo in front of its "sewer system" (the compost pile). I simply followed the instructions in Joseph Jenkins' Humanure Handbook ...I strongly suggest picking this up.  Even if you have no interest in humanure composting, it's still a very critical read for learning the history of human waste and how we've broken the human nutrient cycle. For the fecophobes out there: read about thermal kill times and how compost has been used to fully bioremediate…

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Humanure Compost Toilets at a Music Festival

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…

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