Bentonite (clumping) cat litter

My spouse is not into the permaculture lifestyle & insists on using bentonite cat litter which makes up a very large % of our house hold waste. Not only has the cost of trash collection increased significantly recently, but suddenly the trash men have decided that they are only required to lift 25 pounds. My spouse fosters cats. I can put 25+ pounds of cat waste on the curb every other week!
If I decide to compost the cat litter & add it to my soil, how long should I compost it for? Has anyone done this? My soil is actually mostly silt & lacking in clay.
If there is already a thread addressing this topic, please direct me to it.
Thanks in advance.
Tracy

sieve out the turds. seal your pond.

We became the owner of a kitten last year when her mother came to visit and left her with us.

We use bentonite cat litter and it seems to fit into permaculture to me.

A spot in a corner of your yard in an out-of-the-way spot makes a good dumping spot and can be covered with leaves. Or a trench for composting works well for some folks.

Depending on weather conditions, some soil and dampness help thing compost a little faster.

I switched to horse stall pellets years ago and will never go back. You need a sifting litter box, and you essentially use it backwards from clay. When the pellets get wet, they disintegrate. So you shake down the boxes every few days to let the spent litter fall through to the collection tray. Turds dry up and desiccate much better than in clay litter. Easy to remove with some dedicated tongs at the same time that the spent litter needs removed from the collection tray, once a week or so.

The pine pellets are great a neutralizing smell naturally with no added fragrance and the waste can be composted or simply broadcast into the woods to decompose.