City Farmer's Compost Toilet

See our compost toilet at the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden and find out how it works for us. (www.cityfarmer.org)

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[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.

[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

[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.

[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?!

[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

[samlucero]

@oheinfisenfien ive heard urine helps the composting process.

[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!

[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