Helen Graham#OffGrid #Composting #CompostingToilets
I wondered if any one uses or plans to use composting toilets
I wondered if any one uses or plans to use composting toilets
JeniParsons@Helengraham we use one in our cottage and have done for over nine years. Liquids go on the compost heap and solids in a compost ‘darlek’ for putting round fruit trees when rotted. We do it to save wasting useful nutrients and to save water
@JeniParsons thats what I was hoping to do ,
@Helengraham go for it and see how it works for you. We left the plumbing connections in for when we’re too old to manage the composting side of it. 🙄🤪
SaltPhoenix@Helengraham I have a "nature's head" composting toilet. I've been using it for 9 yrs.
Prof. Sam Lawler@Helengraham My family has been using a very simple bucket composting system for our home for 2 years now! I'll never go back to a flush toilet in my house!
Humanure handbook all the way! We use wood shavings and straw in the compost pile. I dump the buckets and wash them out every 2 weeks or so. 5x 20L buckets for a family of 4. It really sucks when it's below -20, but it's below freezing for months at a time, so I've figured out ways to make it work. Still better than cleaning toilets.
@sundogplanets Hi thank you ,, ,Its just one person so hopefully that would be easier .I am hoping to trial one over spring summer so luckily it isnt overly cold then
@Helengraham We just bought and scavenged a bunch of plastic 5 gallon buckets and a toilet seat, and built a nice wooden cover that the bucket sits inside and the toilet seat attaches to. We have another bucket sitting next to the toilet with shavings.
LionelBMy grandfather did:)
@lionelb The houses previouse owner apparently had nothing he used a trowel and variouse bits of the land around the house and that was the 1970s
rooftopjaxx@Helengraham still a long way off completion (as in weeks and weeks), other priorities first, but this is going to be the privy, in addition to extra rainwater harvesting, when it's roofed over
https://kolektiva.social/@rooftopjaxx/111527155006395709
https://kolektiva.social/@rooftopjaxx/111527155006395709
rooftopjaxx (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 5/n All #allotment projects currently on hold waiting for a slot in the weather, which may be tomorrow. Will need to miss the live experience of Johnson 'giving evidence' to the Covid inquiry if so, as well as to mitigate 'cabin fever' given the outlook. Hoping that 'waterproof' OSB3 sheet (previous toot) is waterproof enough to have survived in the meantime. And as an observation for #WorldSoilDay there'll be a good bit of the ramped up soil at the foot of the embankment to come out to create the level as far as the half-buried red/white painted bent scaffold tube, it's a mix of rubble and detritus together with gorgeous 'forest bottom' leaf mould to be moved sideways and sifted.
@rooftopjaxx what will yoyu roof it with ?I wont be able to collect water from my house or the steading as they will be thatched ,but I thought about builkding a chicken shed for winter shelter and collect water from that
@Helengraham That saga starts here, last November. A simple leanto extension to a shed: https://kolektiva.social/@rooftopjaxx/111494969759687387
18mm OSB3 sheet, then 'Roofing Felt'.
But backburnered until after completing the greenhouse refurb, after the spuds are in, and after the fruit and brassica cage is completed and netted. Then there'll be a commode with a lidded bucket.
18mm OSB3 sheet, then 'Roofing Felt'.
But backburnered until after completing the greenhouse refurb, after the spuds are in, and after the fruit and brassica cage is completed and netted. Then there'll be a commode with a lidded bucket.
rooftopjaxx (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image 3/n And so another project is almost ready to go. #allotment
Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA@Helengraham There is a co-housing community in Portland, Oregon, that operates a large and code-compliant humanure facility.
It's code-compliant because they went to the international plumbing code authorities and advocated for their system. That's a huge undertaking.
Kailash EcoVillage https://www.kailashecovillage.org/composting
@merileedkarr Thanks for the link ,it looks amazing
Pollinators@merileedkarr @Helengraham. One of the photos has a compost crank! This is a great example of a group compost site with humanure! #compost, #humanure, ##compostodon, #composting, #compostingtoilets.
@Helengraham It's much easier to manage poo if you separate it from pee, at the source.That's called "urine diversion."
Poop is dangerous, full of infectious pathogens, but, fortunately, we make a very small amount of it, about a quarter of a liter per day per person.
We produce ten times that volume in pee. Pee is not dangerous, just heavy to schlep around. It's good fertilizer for acid-loving plants.
@Helengraham How do you separate pee & poo -- hop from bucket to bucket? Nope. There's something called a "urine-diverting toilet insert." It has a funnel in front that catches the urine, and channels it to a separate container, while the poop falls straight down into the main container.
Here's a DIY method: http://www.thefloatingempire.com/2018/02/diy-urine-diverter-for-bucket-composter.html
You can find many urine diverters for bucket toilets, just google "urine diverter."
@merileedkarr Isaw the diverters when I was looking at toilets ,I was hoping to use urine for dyeing