Todd Parr wrote:
stephen lowe wrote:... I think we can do better than pooping in drinking water.
I agree 100% IF you are on a city system and pumping waste to a giant chemical-laden processing plant, but what difference does it make if you are rural and have a well and a septic system? Nothing involved, be it the waste or the water, leaves my land. The only thing "wasted" is the amount of electricity it takes to pump the water, and unless you have all the carbon you need available, I doubt that is worse than the gas to get carbon material moved to my land.
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stephen lowe wrote:
Todd Parr wrote:
stephen lowe wrote:... I think we can do better than pooping in drinking water.
I agree 100% IF you are on a city system and pumping waste to a giant chemical-laden processing plant, but what difference does it make if you are rural and have a well and a septic system? Nothing involved, be it the waste or the water, leaves my land. The only thing "wasted" is the amount of electricity it takes to pump the water, and unless you have all the carbon you need available, I doubt that is worse than the gas to get carbon material moved to my land.
I can certainly see that perspective, to me it's more about restoring the respect for water as sacred. Instead of adding poop to it and making both substances less useful we can keep them separate and both can remain viable resources. Also, depending on where you live rurally water may be more or less scarce. But again, to me it is more about returning to a worldview where water is given it's rightful place as the source of life, not just the disposer of waste.
Just me and my kids, off griddin' it - follow along our shenanigans at our YouTube Uncle Dutch Farms.
stephen lowe wrote:
Todd Parr wrote:
stephen lowe wrote:... I think we can do better than pooping in drinking water.
I agree 100% IF you are on a city system and pumping waste to a giant chemical-laden processing plant, but what difference does it make if you are rural and have a well and a septic system? Nothing involved, be it the waste or the water, leaves my land. The only thing "wasted" is the amount of electricity it takes to pump the water, and unless you have all the carbon you need available, I doubt that is worse than the gas to get carbon material moved to my land.
I can certainly see that perspective, to me it's more about restoring the respect for water as sacred. Instead of adding poop to it and making both substances less useful we can keep them separate and both can remain viable resources. Also, depending on where you live rurally water may be more or less scarce. But again, to me it is more about returning to a worldview where water is given it's rightful place as the source of life, not just the disposer of waste.
Sid Smith wrote:We have done it pretty much by the book and still have issues with flies, hamster cage smell
Sid Smith wrote: It doesn't make sense anymore to purchase wood shavings
Bethany Dutch wrote: It also sucks when the bucket is full and you HAVE to go empty them and do all the rigamarole but the weather is bad otherwise.
Bethany Dutch wrote: No matter what I do, my chickens seem to always find a way into the current bin and scratch around in the fresh stuff and that kinda grosses me out and then I don't want to eat their eggs because of possible fecal contamination.
Marcus Billings wrote: Personally, I'd rather get up, flush and get back to planting berry bushes that my septic will be feeding than practice the alchemy required for composting toilets, but hey, that's just me.
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Rebecca Norman wrote: As Joe Jenkins points out, this is a mouldering toilet not a composting toilet
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Rebecca Norman wrote:Supposedly roundworms are one of the only ones that might survive sometimes that long, and they are not a very scary beast.
Sid Smith wrote:After 6 years homesteading I am finally coming around to realize that it is OK not to do it all. We just got a new well installed and the composting toilet is going to be the first thing to go!! We have done it pretty much by the book and still have issues with flies, hamster cage smell, and messiness (try keeping wood shavings from being thrown around the bathroom by a 2 year old, hah!). We already have a septic tank, we just switched to conserve water because our old well only gave 1/2 gal per min. I'm sure there are changes we could continue to try to make this work, but it is just not worth it to us. It doesn't make sense anymore to purchase wood shavings when we now have a functioning well. Also, I am having doubts that compost toilets really save that much water, or maybe I am just overly thorough/paranoid when I wash ours out? Anyway, we are over it. Time to focus on other things like building the cob greenhouse so we can grow bananas and avocados
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Anyone else give up on pooping in a bucket? Or on anything else for that matter, and not feel guilty about it?
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