Sawdust Toilet

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The Simple, Low Cost Humanure Sawdust Toilet:

Build your own.
Instruction Manual
Sanitation by composting a pdf document.
Humanure Handbook. Free. Available in 7 languages.

The ?$25 (or less) Hinged-Top Humanure Toilet? used all over the world. This system has three necessary components: the sawdust toilet, cover material (peat moss, sawdust, etc.) and the compost bins. Two compost bins are needed because composted waste must sit for at least one year without fresh manure being added before it is safe to use on your garden. If the compost pile is too small to get hot then wait two years. The entire award winning Humanure Handbook is available as free download online. Hard copies can also be purchased in several languages. No one should be without an inexpensive simple composting Sawdust toilet during periods when potable water is scarce.

Compost temperature is important. In chapter ?Monitoring Compost Temperature? of the Humanure Handbook it is said that a temperature of 120 degrees F for a few hours would eliminate pathogenic organisms completely.

One user of a sawdust toilet reported that he had found a way to bypass the need to construct and maintain the composting bin specified by Jenkins. Instead, black trash bags intended for use in a trash compactor (much tougher than garbage bags) were used as a bucket liner. When full, the black bags were removed and put in a sunny spot next to the garden. After an unspecified length of time the contents were completely decomposed and the finished product was without odor. Once the compost had cooked the trash compactor bags could be emptied in the garden and recycled as a fresh liner in the collection container.

?Despite all the books on manure and how to use it, human manure composting is not covered elsewhere, making THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO COMPOSTING HUMAN MANURE a fine reference for any who would learn these basics. Now in its 3rd edition, THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK covers all the basics of human waste management, from septic systems to commercial composting toilets, sewers, and more. A history of various composting methods, science, and problems is accompanied by a healthy dose of humor plus a solid foundation of science into pathogens, pros and cons of competing systems, and more. If you?re an avid composter, there?s nothing like this on the market.? Midwest Book Review

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I find this subject of how to deal with human manure to be refreshing as it is practical on many levels at this time. Human manure, whether it is actual SHIIIITEE or the various mental abberations to which we all, to varying degrees are prone, is a constant, relentless issue. This is very practical, and it is well to contemplate how SHIIITTEE can nourish and sustain us, as swords may be turned to plowshares god willing.