Emptying Humanure Toilet Receptacles

From HumanureHandbook.com: Humanure toilets are collection toilets, but what do you do with the material after it's collected? This video clip shows how to add the toilet materials tot he compost bin.

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[donaldstafford]

Respond to this video... will fresh humen dodo kill plants duse it have to rot in sun for 1 year

[jcjenkins01]

Fresh excrement is a pollutant and disease source.

[24preacherboy]

Can you put dead animanials in your compost pile?

My cat is old and I dont know what to do with him.

[jcjenkins01]

Wait until he dies. Dig a hole in the top center of the active compost pile and bury him there.

[drohrer2021]

Do you normally add food scraps to your compost in a similar way? I am almost finished constructing my 3 bin compost system and very much want to compost my organic materials along with my humanure and am not exactly sure how to do both harmoniously. Should I deposit my feces buckets at the same time I deposit my food scraps to the compost?

[jcjenkins01]

Yes, you can add your food scraps to the compost pile in the same manner as the humanure. You can also add your food scraps directly into the toilet receptacles AFTER the receptacles have been removed from the toilet and set aside with a lid. There is usually enough room on top for a compost bucket full of food scraps. This way, it all gets dumped into the compost pile together. This is just for convenience - you don't have to put them together.

[Nilyentaraka]

Mr. Jenkins, I thought you should know that after reading the Humanure Handbook, Girdlok from the planet Turdnok in the Constellation Alpha Romeo himself paid me a visit. LOL!

On a serious note, your book and ideas are amazing and inspiring; thank you for sharing them with the world. I'm in a region of the U.S. where rain and heat are plentiful, so I'd have to modify my hacienda at bit.

[canadianmuslimnproud]

Did you ever think about running a copper pipe through the compost and keeping your water warm through out the winter so you wouldn't need to haul water? I'm not sure how you would finagle the water feed but it would work if you could. Just a thought.

[taoweilundemo]

We've started using paper grocery bags as liners in our buckets and it makes cleaning the buckets much easier. Also, we now have a large number of buckets with lids and so we wait until we have ~30 buckets and build a large pile at once contained by straw bales. The temp hits over 140 for about a week so I think we're essentially autoclaving the coliforms and other disease bacteria.

[TalksWithDirt]

What about methane generation? If you enclosed the 'casa de la compost' and made it into a digester, I would suppose your system would make a fair amount of methane. Which rises a question, if applied on a large scale would this generate more methane than we do now? Or is methane generated no matter what method you use to treat waste so long as anarobic methods are used. Also, how are things going in Haiti with your system? Thanks for developing this system and sharing with us.

[1too3fore]

hey, what about black soldier fly larvae? Apparently, they are very good at processing human waste and the earthworms like to feed off their waste.  While I try to put enough cover material on my deposits, it seems that flies are still able to lay eggs since I've started seeing lots of maggots but it turns out they are beneficial to the bin. I guess it's just the nuisance of them flying around that bugs me but they don't carry disease.