Survival Sanitation: How to Deal with Human Waste

Tacticalintelligence.net ^ | 8-22-2011

[Gritty]

How do we best deal with it?

Dump it on the White Hut lawn...

[rfp1234]

That’s what the Occupy crowd would do.

[Obadiah]

[JOAT]

Ping

[little jeremiah]

HUMANURE composting toilets. The best way to cleanly dispose of poop. It’s online, I’ve seen it work on a small city lot, used it myself out in the country, it WORKS. Just need buckets and some composting materials - dirt, leaf mould, chipper shredded stuff, sawdust (raw wood, not kiln dried lumber, microbes aren’t there).

http://humanurehandbook.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanure

Trench latrines and cat holes work well, used ‘em both for long periods of time, it composts fast when done properly.

[little jeremiah]

I just posted the link to Humanure online.

I’ve used that kind of toilet and it works very well. No smell.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A few pointers that help things out in some situations.

The US Army came up with a neat technique to dispose of most urine apart from feces. Just get a long section of 5” diameter PVC pipe and bury it in the ground at an angle so that one end is waist high. By keeping most of the urine and feces separate, you significantly reduce the volume needed for a sealed waste container.

Quicklime (calcium oxide) is superb stuff for sanitation, both for feces and human remains. It strongly helps decomposition and kills lots of germs while reducing odor. Keeps down insects as well.

[quintr]

later

[ansel12]

For the people in concrete cities like New York, if you forget these proper ways to deal with waste, or fail to prepare, then at least remember this better than nothing, compromise.

Use the ubiquitous plastic grocery bags from the supermarkets, put them over a five gallon bucket, or over a little waste basket from the bathroom or bedroom, or a big cooking pot, use it, tie it shut and pitch it into a garbage bag until that is full, then seal that.

A couple of weeks of that will stink to all get out, but at least it is separate from your environment, and can be disposed of when garbage service is returned.

[Darren McCarty]

Reminds me of the old book sold in outdoors stores. "How to sh!t in the woods"

Actually, it's good advice. I didn't think about the flies and animals. The water I part I did, but that's obvious.

[MNDude]

I was referring to the NJ apartment hallway poopers.

[BenLurkin]

Only in New York.

[smokingfrog]

A catapult works well for that. For future reference, take note of the 0bama campaign signs in your neighborhood and use google maps to compute the range and bearing.

[CatherineofAragon]

Oh, you have it down, all right. Good tips, LOL.

[Carriage Hill]

LOLOLOLOL! Best laugh I had today. (Rough day)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bucket Toilets at the ready, SIR! :)

[Carriage Hill]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2958107/posts?page=6#6

[grumpygresh]

Maybe I should build some trench latrines near my property lines. After they’re filled up and covered with brush, they would make a good booby trap.
While we’re on the subject, will there be any posts on booby traps and defenses?

[LearsFool]

Humanure can be mulched. The secret is to have a lot of greens. The additional greens will get hot enough to burn off anything.

Urine is very high in nitrogen (i.e. "green").

[Ellendra]

I know I've said this before, but just in case anybody missed it, with a bit of practice you can use a plastic refillable spray bottle full of water as a bidet, drastically cutting down on the amount of TP needed.

(Also good for anyone who has trouble with hemorrhoids.)