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Humanure and the Sawdust Toilet | HipHillbilly.com — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:54:05 +0000

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By: Ibn La Ahad

Ibn La Ahad — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:16:56 +0000

I think this Idea would come in handy in Haiti

By: Wretha

Wretha — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:25:45 +0000

Dave, yes, cover it up, it’s quite simple. On occasion, when one of us has a “messy” poo, maybe we ate something that didn’t agree with us, or just had a particularly nasty movement, at that point, we would go ahead and dump out the bucket early, fortunately that doesn’t happen too often. No, it doesn’t smell any worse than any other traditional toilet. We live with 2 toilet buckets inside our house, a very small house, essentially 2 rooms, we don’t have a separate bathroom area, so it is very much in your face/nose, believe me, if it smelled, I wouldn’t have it in my house. :)

Of course when you are using the toilet, yes, you will smell what you are doing, just like it does when you use a traditional flush porcelain toilet, poo stinks, but the room does clear out, maybe you have to open a window if it’s particularity stinky, but in general, the covered bucket does not stink.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:42:43 +0000

how do you keep the “toilet” inside from smelling? just covering with sawdust? thanks

By: Wretha

Wretha — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:30:51 +0000

Elnav, the great thing about using the Joseph Jenkins method is it doesn’t matter about the temps inside, the composting takes place outside, if it’s too cold for composting to take place, it will simply start up when the weather warms up. Our compost (outside) keeps going nicely year round, I’m sure it slows a bit during the coldest parts, but it still works fine. As far as the commercial composting toilets, I don’t know how the inside temps effect it, you would have to contact the manufacturer about that.

Wretha

By: elnav

elnav — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:20:54 +0000

I get the impression composting toilets require a certain minimum temperature in order to be functional. So far I have not seen data on this. Maintaining a temperature above a given level could become problematic in colder climates. Is this a needless worry or might we need provisions to bring heat to the composting toilet if the floor and wall is facing the exterior? I have learned the hard way that placing anything against an exterior wall results in the chill creeping through, despite layers of insulation if warm interior air cannot reach that part of the wall.

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