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To: Marcella

Having spent a number of years without regular indoor flush toilets (on a few occaions, total several years), I would highly recommend reading “Humanure”, it is online. It is the best book I’ve read about how to deal with excrement in a clean, safe and easy way without regular plumbing.

Burying human (or any kind of) excrement in plastic bags will so slow down composting that the crap will remain nasty for a long, long time. Building or making a simple composting toilet and using compostable material such as sawdust (from raw lumber or wood, not kiln dried lumber), leaves, leaf mould, dirt, or chipper shredded leaves/sticks etc), and done properly, composts crap quickly and easily. I have done it and I highly recommend it.

Pit outhouses are doable but much more nasty and can pollute ground water if the water table is high. Even a trench latrine is better than a pit outhouse or plastic bags. It composts very quickly if the trench is not very deep, and a movable little “outhouse” can be used. But composting toilets can even be used indoors. When done right, there is practically no smell at all.


68 posted on 10/07/2012 5:17:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah; JRandomFreeper
“But composting toilets can even be used indoors. When done right, there is practically no smell at all.”

I have read much about composting and composting toilets and looked at/read everything Lehmans sells. I can't build a composting toilet and have no where to put such in my small townhouse if I bought one - gave up on that idea. I'm going to have to bury it.

I live in town and that limits me, too. I actually have a stack of large, strong, paper bags and would likely use those in potties instead of plastic bags. Some of these paper bags are made for trash compactor units (have a thin coating of plastic inside them) but most of them are just paper I bought at Kroger. One day I saw these large strong paper bags on the bottom shelf where plastic trashbags are and they are not expensive. I don't recall the price but was surprised it wasn't more.

I actually got them to put regular household trash in. I have an outdoor fireplace and got that to burn trash in. Didn't want to put trash in plastic bags to burn plastic in that fireplace, so got paper bags. I need to get more.

Unless I go live with the Amish, going to have to bury human waste. I'll find a place to dump urine instead of burying it but I don't know now where that will be.

I grew up using an outhouse. We had a shower but no potties. Think I was in 9th grade before we had indoor potties. Now, I have three regular potties in my house - no more outhouses.

74 posted on 10/07/2012 5:48:04 PM PDT by Marcella (Republican Conservatism is dead. PREPARE.)
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To: little jeremiah
"It composts very quickly if the trench is not very deep,...But composting toilets can even be used indoors."

What do you do if it's the dead of winter? Like January in Minnesota?

97 posted on 10/07/2012 10:50:37 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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