Re: Don't look down toilet
A topic near and dear to my heart (as well as other parts of my anatomy). I
have for years been a deciple of Joseph Jenkins, authur of The Humanure
Compost System. Through adopting his elegent, amazingly effective, and
extremely low tech system I have been able to observe and therefore learn
much about how thermophilic composting works. We have not flushed a toilet
(at least not at our house) in 16 years. I've experimented with a couple of
more complex systems, but have settle on Jenkins as the ulitmate solution.
I'll not go into the detail here, but it basically has to do with buckets,
sawdust (or peat moss), organic material, humanure (to Jenkins calling shit
"waste" is starting on the wrong foot right off the mark), moisture, heat
and time. For those interested, I strongly recommend his book. A tad longer
than it probably needs to be, but very readable and vastly informative. I
have no idea if his system can be adapted to boat life, but I intend to
experiment with the concept this summer with the micro. I'll definitely give
a progress report on this list.
jeb, thinking anything is possible on the disturbingly warm December shores
of Fundy
have for years been a deciple of Joseph Jenkins, authur of The Humanure
Compost System. Through adopting his elegent, amazingly effective, and
extremely low tech system I have been able to observe and therefore learn
much about how thermophilic composting works. We have not flushed a toilet
(at least not at our house) in 16 years. I've experimented with a couple of
more complex systems, but have settle on Jenkins as the ulitmate solution.
I'll not go into the detail here, but it basically has to do with buckets,
sawdust (or peat moss), organic material, humanure (to Jenkins calling shit
"waste" is starting on the wrong foot right off the mark), moisture, heat
and time. For those interested, I strongly recommend his book. A tad longer
than it probably needs to be, but very readable and vastly informative. I
have no idea if his system can be adapted to boat life, but I intend to
experiment with the concept this summer with the micro. I'll definitely give
a progress report on this list.
jeb, thinking anything is possible on the disturbingly warm December shores
of Fundy