City Farmer's Compost Toilet

[Nanaknows60]

Never use human or meat-eating animal's feces for compost!

Only plant eaters like horses, cows, rabbits, chicken manure is safe for gardens and it has to be old or cool.



[000Winter000]

Isn't clumping un-composted poop? I heard that the toilet doesn't seperate new poop from old..

[LoveVanillaRose]

AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET US FREE

[tontotonto]

what about toilet paper

[paper000000]

I just cannot believe that there is no smell.

[usingmeasamuse]

I don't care how "green" this is, but it is a disgusting concept. I couldn't be comfortable knowing that I'm having a bowel movement just inches from my last bowel movement

[IdahoViewing]

@usingmeasamuse Oh grow up, would you. I would rather do this that go to a public porta pottie and do it on hundreds or other people's business!

[JustBoredEnough]

I guess the F'ing tree huggers like to eat their own shit. What idiot woke up one moring wondering how he could save his turd.

[hablerz]

@JustBoredEnough At the moment you go swimming, surfing, bathing and fishing in a great soup of peoples shit and piss. Then you go home , turn on the tap and drink water thats been collected from this soup. Then you buy shrimp and fish thats been living in this shit and piss soup and have it for tea. Tell me now who is a tree hugger?, you may flush it away but it will come back to haunt you in the end.

[CarlLewenski]

So the human compost is emptied twice a year. And in the meantime, you are okay with fermenting fecal particles spalshing up on your anus when you take a dump? But hey, you are saving water, right? I mean, the earth is only 3/4's water. Wouldn't want to waste any of it keeping ourselves disease free.

[jannonymous]

theres no water to splash idiot. People have shit this way for thousands of years.

[CarlLewenski]

I really wish that I were a demigod. I would pull a SawIV on your ass and make you shit a completely dry terd... genius.

[SeverEnergia]

You actually are supposed to let the tray sit for a week or two before removing...

[JuanLeggett]

What about the toilet paper?

[bratcat2]

It's more natural to compost and then bury waste instead of using precious water to flush it into our rivers and oceans along with the chemicals used to treat it. I cannot see how the felt seat cover is sanitary. Toilet seats are a hard nonporous surface, easy to wipe clean. Fabric, or in this case felt, can soak up bits and splashes of waste, holding on to it until its tossed into a washing machine. Who would want to sit on that, or have the job of washing the seat cover for that matter?!

[dookindasie1]

so do you drop dumps and stuff in there?

[oheinfisenfien]

I have the same toilet. My manual says to rotate it more frequently than once a month, like every three days. I have a problem with clumping. I keep the compost moist by adding water everyday (I don't usually pee in it) and I keep the toilet warm, above 60. Maybe the clumping is from rotating too often or maybe it's the compost material. I add sunmars' peat and wood chips mix. I haven't seen the hemp. Any input?

[pakuataichi]

Clumping probably does come from rotating too often. The hemp mix was available from the Sun Mar web site.

[shawtiee1085]

can u make a video of what it looks like under the toilet seat?

[SaviourSole]

you probably don't need to add moisture...

[wheelori814]

maybe its because of the wood chips, try saw dust, I would also try pine needles. Not sure where ur from but you can get saw dust usually for free from saw mills or furniture companies. Pine needles u just go out and collect, u can also add grass clippings if you mow your lawn. just dont put too much in. a handful every time you do your duty is enough. Dont understand why you dont pee in it?

[samlucero]

@oheinfisenfien ive heard urine helps the composting process.

[PeakOilBoy]

Excellent! Now... how to build them?

[SCENARIOBABY]

good

[progay]

I think I saw a Youtube video with a guy who says you can thrown in bones and meat into a compost pit which is dug deeper into the soil. I don't know if animal products are discouraged from compost bins because of the smell. I do direct composting in a pit, I put in animal products I get from the market, but I put a good layer of dried leaves on the bottom of the 2 foot deep pit, so the juices from the nitrogen rich animal matter can seep down to the carbo-rich leaves.

[bearsagainstevil]

wonderful you are the future, protect the topsoil, use less water, create less waste, save the planet.

best wishes from the united kingdom

[utubepunk]

Word.

[pakuataichi]

Our compost toilet is for human waste (urine and feces). A peat/hemp stalk/sawdust mix is added too. Vegetable/fruit/coffee/tea scraps and yard waste all go into our backyard compost bins. Meat and other food waste go to the landfill. Some cities however have all food waste picked up and composted in large municipal facilities. You can find many example if you surf the Net. Mike

[Moondancevixen]

Hi, I think that is a great idea but I have a question. How can you compost meat? I am assuming that only vegetarians use this toilet?

[CanAm2002]

I'm wondering the same thing.

[TheMathGuy]

It is possible to compost meat, just trickier. But no trickier than composting human feces is. Given the right conditions almost anything organic will compost. Meat, vegetation, cardboard and paper, even motor oil. The important thing is that if you're composting a material that could be a disease vector (such as meat, feces, etc...) to ensure it reaches thermophilic temperatures (google Joe Jenkins' "The Humanure Handbook" for more details).