compost toilet

A composting toilet made from 5 gallon buckets

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[Luk0Besson]

Or you just dropp it all in the bucket and that dry it ??? but that will stink and it will be be full of liquid... how can one defecate on that everything will fly up! xDDD ... This lady is talking about drying off the feces and covering with a layer of saw dust. but how to separate the urine first ?

[wa7mlh]

@Luk0Besson

I have a muffin fan for ventilation and a solar panel to run it.

If the sun is out, the toilet is vented to the outside.

"Everything" does not fly up in this design.

I toss peat moss or crumbled rotten wood in after use.

The smell is not bad since the composting is done aerobically.

Anaerobic decomposition will smell foul.

In this unit I do not worry about the urine since the ventilation will evaporate the H20.

[000Winter000]

@wa7mlh Why don't you use your urine for plant fertlilizer?

[wa7mlh]

@000Winter000

Because this is just a prototype and was implemented rather quickly.

And the primary agenda was for an alternative to the outhouse at night or when it is winter time.

This is implemented in grizzly bear habitat, so night time walks to the outhouse can be very

high anxiety for some people.

Ultimately, one would set this up to keep the urine separate.

[Luk0Besson]

I`ve seen another video where this lady is talking about heating or drying the manure inside the bucket or something like that i didnt understood her well english is not my native ^^. But anyway as i understood in order to make it odourless and to turn it into compost, it needs to be dry and without urine. So how can one separate the urine and feces when you gotta do it ^_^ ?

[wa7mlh]

@Luk0Besson

Ideally, one would separate the urine because of the salt in it.

There are ways to catch the urine flow and sned it to a different container.

Also, one can simply keep the solids above the fliuds in the bottom

My only goal was to have a way to dry out everything by way of evaporation.

Not sure just how I will get rid of it when it is all dried out.

Wost case scenario is to burn the dried remains in the wood stove.

[wa7mlh]

Yet you were compelled to listen.

[desertblbuesman]

I like your design, but do not understand how you remove the bucket with the top bucket with vent down into it..

[wa7mlh]

@desertblbuesman

Wow. Sorry for such a late reply.

The top plywood piece gets unscrewed and lifted up to allow access to the bucket.

For me, this is no big deal, yet I think it might be for a lot of people.

Again, this thing is very experimental.

So far, it is working well.

[YiuTeub]

what about people who do bowl painting. thats my biggest issue.

[Automobilie]

I wouldn't worry about PVC fumes. Even after all the preparations, you'll probably just be eaten by a grue...

On a serious note, how come modern sewage systems are nothing but toxic? Is it just the other things that go into it?

[Hamish121212]

Thank you - very informative.

[mormonwoman52]

I can't stand to listen to this guy-AHHHH