Timothy Ettridge wrote:
As I'm building a tiny house, I've given much thought to my ultimate toilet system. I think I've come down to a pee-diverting, sawdust composting system with a secondary diverter for cleaning myself as described above. This will be the only blackwater produced, and in a much smaller volume for which I hope to devise some evaporation tank that can reduce this to solid waste for the compost container (a large garbage bin) as well.
Steve Farmer wrote:I would NEVER wipe with my bare hand.
Steve Farmer wrote:Cut a chilli pepper in half and scrape the seeds out with your finger tips. Then wash your hands. Then wash them again. Then rub your hands in dirt and wash them again. Now taste your finger tips. Chilli.
Washing your hands might make them look clean but it takes a lot of washing and scrubbing to really make them clean. Ask a surgeon how long they scrub for.
I would NEVER wipe with my bare hand.
Why not just send it with the pee?
Timothy Ettridge wrote:
The pee is sterile and good nitrogen fertilizer straight from your body. Butt wiping water, on the other hand, needs to be decomposed for a full year to be safe to simply apply to one's land (as pee is right away).
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Adrien Lapointe wrote:Is the metal stick for when it gets too crusty?
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We can green the world through random acts of planting.
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Jackson Vasey wrote:Given the assumption you have a water line with enough pressure, you could install a handheld bidet next to the toilet, and save your left hand. Or you could go whole hog and install one of those automatic bidet sprayers, but really the handheld sprayer seems like a nice compromise on the TP thing.
Timothy Ettridge wrote:
The pee is sterile and good nitrogen fertilizer straight from your body. Butt wiping water, on the other hand, needs to be decomposed for a full year to be safe to simply apply to one's land (as pee is right away).
Phil Stevens wrote:Mullein leaves are a great alternative.
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Wendy Howard wrote:
We need to look more carefully at the circumstances in which faecal contamination becomes problematic, because logically these should be the exceptions rather than the rule - nature designed pretty much all land-based animals, humans included, to return their waste straight to the soil. If there are problems with this, we're doing something wrong.
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Corey Schmidt wrote:
So, in summary, i feel its an issue of unchecked population growth that has led us to this age of sewage treatment.
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Corey Schmidt wrote:
Or smell (a repulsive smell is basically a biological inhibitor - keeps us away from things that aren't good for us). In a good microbial and vermicomposting system, there's no bad smell, even when opening the system immediately after a fresh deposit. The same applies to processing in humanure compost heaps,.
Corey Schmidt wrote:So, in summary, i feel its an issue of unchecked population growth that has led us to this age of sewage treatment.
Jd Gonzalez wrote:http://m.livescience.com/42921-why-humans-need-toilet-paper.html
In the article, Warman notes, "Although we share most of our DNA with great apes, there are some striking anatomical differences between ourselves and our nearest relatives, most notably our vertical posture. This enables us to walk tall with our hands free, but it also comes at a price: we experience problems with our back and joints, and the whole business of evacuating our waste is more difficult. The fundamental problem is that the area used for releasing urine and faeces is compressed between thighs and buttocks, so we are more likely than other animals to foul ourselves. We also differ from other animals in our response to our waste, which we tend to regard with disgust. This seems to have developed as a result of living together in settlements rather than roaming through the forest, where we could leave our mess behind us. Unlike other primates we can learn when and where it is acceptable to excrete."
Corey Schmidt wrote: i feel its an issue of unchecked population growth that has led us to this age of sewage treatment.
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