Emptying the Compost Toilet

Two brave students from Simon Fraser University's Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue program helped me empty the compost toilet. The toilet drum gets filled with human waste and cover material and must be unloaded about once a year. The finished product will travel to our rooftop garden to fertilize the ornamental plants growing there.

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• compost
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• agriculture
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• sfu

[oehlda2000]

What brand is it and how many people can it accommodate for how long?

[pakuataichi]

SunMar composter. It is probably rated for two people for regular use but ours is used by staff, one person a day, several times a week.

[cityboyBC3]

It's like they're three years old -- everybody applauding them for going potty!

[awrik]

Serena's a hottie.

[poplawsj]

you say it only needs to be emptied about once a year with some one using it at least once every day. how is that possible? It doesn't look like it has the capacity to do that. (my question is seriouse).

[emerson24]

@cityboyBC3 Oh man, that's was funny. A nice good hearty laugh at 3:13am.

[teofagia]

SEE to cesar añorve in mexico!!! he is best!! and liquid and a woman??

[Adipatus]

Thanks

[SeverEnergia]

damn straight

[evanbleker]

Okay, I'm all for sustainability... but that's just gross.

[oheinfisenfien]

Sunmar recommend that you keep the compost in the finishing drawer for three weeks after dropping it from the bin. If you look at how the composter works, some of the "finished" compost you drop out of the bin could be yesterdays poop. The composter doesn't have a way of separating stuff that has been in the composter for weeks and stuff that went in yesterday. So leave in the drawer and any fresh stuff will continue to compost. I see that their compost has clumps like mine.

[icap121]

thanks. amazing toilet system