Emptying a Compost Toilet_0001.wmv

How to manage a simple compost toilet, producing compost for fruit bushes in the garden. It takes about half an hour each year to change the chambers, so here we are doing it on New Year's Eve.

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• humanure
• compost toilet
• permaculture
• sustainable solutions
• sustainability
• roundhouse
• gardening
• compost

[Timsprojects]

what happens to the pee? does it just soak away?

im curious as i intend to make a compost toilet

[ToneWrench]

Yes it just soaks away. I have made the bottom open to the earth. This is simpler and more natural than sealing the whole thing. You can try a system for catching the pee separately, but then you have to ensure that no soak gets into it. The ones I have made with separate pee collection have been more trouble than they are worth. We never use this loo just to pee - we pee in the garden or on the compost heap.

[bendwyermusic]

Thanks. This is really useful. So is it ok to just the compost in one side decomposing anaerobically? I've heard some people say it should be in an air tight container?

[ToneWrench]

No there are two ways - aerobic, where you let the air get to it, and anaerobic, where you seal it and it produces methane etc. For a simple one like this aerobic is best.

[paidskn1488]

@delythgriffiths I like the welsh they care for the planet and the areas they live in.

[delythgriffiths]

@GanjaStuPipesUp Wales. I'm a West Wale Welsh girl, there are a lot of small communities that live like this. You should look up or even visit CAT (Centre of Alternative Technology) near Machynlleth, it's all about this kind of stuff, how to live with the planet instead of just plonked on it.

[RivenBloak]

I'd fill that in less than a year!

[GanjaStuPipesUp]

Where was this filmed? Where do these people live?

I want to find a community where I can build a round house & live among the trees & plants, the way it's meant to be.