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Midwest Permaculture's Super Clean Composting Toilet

 
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The folks at Midwest Permaculture built a super clean composting toilet


They use 26 gallon black plastic boxes to hold the willow candy. They turn it on occasion with a compost auger. After the boxes are full, they innoculate them with a bit of fungi and bacteria, then set them aside for 1 to 2 years.
 
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Thanks for posting this Jeremy, as our composting toilet is moving from way down the wish list to high up on the 'to do list'!
 
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Thank you again for this post because as a result, I found the humanure book (I think I actually found it years ago and didn't get around to reading it !) I've been researching over a few years now, but wasn't 100% sold on any of the methods I found. The humanure book is excellent, and we've decided to go with his well explained, simple and effective method. I like the fact that there's no urine diversion, we can use bio bags, we dont have to aerate, the temperatures will kill pathogens and at the end of the exercise we'll have good compost for growing. We're going to give it our best shit shot and see how it works. The case studies in the book are really useful. That guy has changed the lives of so many people.
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