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I have been meaning to make a second sawdust toilet to replace my first attempt which was made from recycled material. It needed to be painted and my wife would like to try something in a more natural wood look. This will give me a spare that I will probably set up in a second location but I also intend to use it as a loaner to anyone who needs it for emergency use. I talked to someone today whose cottage septic is frozen and if I owned a spare I would have loaned it to them to help them out. Over the past 5 yrs I can easily remember 6 to 10 instances when people were stuck with either no water or no septic. A sawdust toilet would relieve, no pun intended, both situations. Has anyone else ever loaned a system out? I do recall reading about someone biking over a system to a friend but I can't remember what board it was on.
 
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Sounds great! Do it! Spread the word! (or the buckets, or whatever)
 
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It's a fairly hard sell here since the norm works so well in my area, mostly lots of water, decent drainage and a lot of retirees. I am trying to get the minimum square footage rule dropped from the building code and alternative sanitation will be next. Society through government should not be making most choices for the average person.
 
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