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Composting toilets use biological processes to deal with the disposal and processing of human excrement into organic compost material.
Types of toilet
There are two basic types of compost toilet, those that complete the composting process 'in situ' and those that are emptied to a separate compost pile remote from the toilet itself. The latter arrangement is sometimes referred to colloquially as a ‘bucket and chuck it’ system, like a Humanure Bucket System. This means that faeces is deposited into a plastic container to which soak material such as straw, sawdust, dry grass, etc, is added in order to absorb excess liquid, cover human waste materials, exclude flies, reduce smells and balance Carbon:Nitrogen ratios. When full the bucket is removed and emptied onto a composting pile that is kept separate from other composting materials such as kitchen or garden waste.
Some composting toilets use electricity, while others do not. Some electrical systems use fans to exhaust air and increase microbial activity. Other systems require the user to rotate a composting drum or otherwise stir the composting humanure from time to time.
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@michaelfmuller you sound surprised. wait till he tries to mandate composting toilets in every home in asheville.
arratik (arratik) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:43 -0000
@michaelfmuller you sound surprised. wait till he tries to mandate composting toilets in every home in asheville.
gray water system,solar panels,composting toilets- that's fine for rich Hollywood types but not this slob
HardlyApathetic (Jean) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:46:23 -0000
gray water system,solar panels,composting toilets- that's fine for rich Hollywood types but not this slob
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SpanAfrica (SpanAfrica) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:19:13 -0000
RT @JB002: Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting @time http://bit.ly/4qZjdJ
Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting @time http://bit.ly/4qZjdJ
jb002 (Jon Barsanti) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:15:26 -0000
Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting @time http://bit.ly/4qZjdJ
reviewing composting toilets (lovely!) http://www.natureshead.net/marine.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B_O3FFnZVM
catmaudy (SailingCatMaudy) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:07:19 -0000
reviewing composting toilets (lovely!) http://www.natureshead.net/marine.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B_O3FFnZVM
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whri (World Hunger Relief) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:30:48 -0000
I posted 4 photos on Facebook in the album "Composting Toilets 2009" http://bit.ly/7ybmER
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