DIY Composting Toilet
“Make your own composting toilet using a 55 gallon drum, peat-moss and a few other items.”
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“Make your own composting toilet using a 55 gallon drum, peat-moss and a few other items.”
This is a great video because the Loveable Loo folks have gone the “open source” route in showing you how a sawdust toilet is built and giving you the option to be inspired by what they’ve done or to buy a Loveable Loo from them.
This is a simple sawdust toilet – one component in a humanure composting system. They use a plastic bucket that needs to be emptied into a composter/compost bin.
Loren Luyendyk from Santa Barbara Organics talks about water.
Topics:
– How you can use swales to redirect water on your property and also to encourage water that might otherwise flow away, taking topsoil with it to sink into the soil.
– Mulching to help retain water in the soil.
– Collecting rain water and storing it in tanks, in plants on your land and in manmade ponds
– Greywater – Use water more than once. Really easy set-ups and more complicated ones.
– Blackwater (sewage) – Treating the sewage with vegetation. Gives a reed bed example,
– Flowforms to oxygenate water
Introduction to Permaculture Part 2: Water from sbpermaculture on Vimeo.
Laura Allen shows us her composting toilet system. She is using a toilet that separates urine and feces, with feces being deposited into bins under her house. From there she dumps it into a sealed compost bin for a year, after which it has broken down into an inoffensive compost that she uses in her garden.
On the tour of her bathroom, she also mentions that her bathroom sink directly waters plants in her garden with its greywater (since it’s a sink, in this case, greywater is likely soapy water).
I understood that the composting process breaks down any pathogens that might be in the feces, but wondered whether substances like any drugs the person may have been taking would remain.
I also would have loved to see where the urine was diverted and what she did with it.
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