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Anyone try a biochar toilet?

 
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Instead of sawdust?  If so, results?  Odor?
 
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Not completely, but a little charcoal mixed in with the sawdust does a good job of controlling odors.
 
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I used fresh ash/char from my firepit in an old pit outhouse. It worked very well at controlling odours.

Edit: I also use fresh char in my "liquid gold" collecting jug. Again, excellent odour control. A little dry ash in the mix is fine. I believe it raises the pH so high that the normal smell-making decomposers aren't active.
 
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Ellendra Nauriel wrote:Not completely, but a little charcoal mixed in with the sawdust does a good job of controlling odors.



I did the same in mine.  I mixed maybe 10% in with sawdust and I found it to work well.
 
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