It ’s easy to establish a composting toilet ; however , building a comfortable system take a little more work .
Along those lines , Raven Wolf left an entertaining input beneathmy late video on work up Joseph Jenkins ’ “ Lovable Loo ” bucketful toilet :
“ awe-inspiring – compost everything – include human poo – but unspoilt to tally those prissy touches like a toilet bottom and a bucket . When I was pregnant with my son 18 years ago , I experience with a friend who had a composting “ stage ” in the Natalie Wood . He was a huge fan of theHumanure Handbook . My Quaker was a bit hard-core about it tho . No walls , no roof , not even steps to get up on it – just a big wooden boxwood with a hole on top in the middle of the Wood . He did not apply gutter tissue paper – just a heap of hay next to the cakehole ( you add it after you poo to add majority and control condition odors)–you had to convey a jounce of water system and grievous bodily harm to rinse off your fundament – which is OK when it ’s not freezing out – which it was . I had to climb an icy rock to get up there . I steal off multiple times . As the sleet and snow were hitting my bare ass , I decided to move indoors into a building with bathymetry . I still accord 100 % with the system of logic of compost human waste and want to build a composting can outhouse here someday — but with wall and a roof!!!!!—and a portable heater for winter . Brrrrrrrr ! ”
The far you get into composting and homesteading , the more you risk alienate normal people who appreciate the little thing like comfort and not freezing their bare rump off in a sleetstorm .
Speaking of alienate , despite his fantabulous trailblazing with composting commode system , Joseph Jenkins has never been a home well-disposed author . The third variant of the Humanure Handbook contains a slew of scatological overindulgence . Unfortunately , he has now subtitled the fourth editionS — in a Nutshell . If my 3rd variation had that championship , I never would have buy the leger just because I would n’t want it on my ledge . Talk about pall off the normal the great unwashed .
Let ’s take a look .
Benefits of a Flush Toilet
1 . No handling dissipation
2 . Located indoors in a warm house
3 . Pull a lever and the bank deposit is fail
4 . cleansing is minimal
5 . No smell
6 . bacterium / parasite photo is exceptionally low for drug user
Can your composting pot title all the same benefits ?
Probably not . So why would you use a composting toilet ?
Well … compost lav have their own welfare .
Benefits of a Composting Toilet
1 . No septic tank car / sewer require
2 . No plumbing or water required
3 . “ Waste ” is reuse into quality compost
4 . initiation is very easy
5 . Can be set up up off - grid
6 . water supply - costless ( except for possible rinse )
7 . Very environmentally favorable
There are more expensive composting toilet that rate highly on the comfort and convenience side of thing , like theNature ’s Head toilet , or my favorite , theC - Headdesigned by my friend Sandy .
For my current cabin , I am just using the bucket pot for now . It is indoors and apply sawdust as a fill material . It ’s not as commodious as some system – and for sure not as comfortable as a standard flush toilet – but it ’s certainly tacky and simply to place up .
You do have to dole out with some materials , some smell and some worriment , but the vast savings on a septic tank as well as the ready source of compost make it worthwhile . If you keep your system well , you get used to it and the bugs and odour are n’t much of an progeny .
Finally , I cover composting human “ permissive waste ” in detail in my bookCompost Everything : The Good Guide to Extreme Composting . It ’s not scary , and if you ’re a cheapskate – and crazy composter – like me , a composting toilet is well deserving a thin driblet in convenience . It does n’t have to be the nightmare Raven describes .
- picture at top viaTheGraphicsFairy.com .
