This is a badge bit (
BB) that is part of the
PEM curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the
straw badge in
Waste Streams.
Are you ready for a sticky subject? You guessed it, it's
poop. Instead of wasting fresh
water to send those turds to a septic or sewer, let's
compost them in a
humanure composting system!
This BB and a few adjacent to it fully influenced by Joseph Jenkens'
The Humanure Handbook edition 4. Joseph is a wonderful man who posted the book on his website for any who can't buy it. I'd highly recommend it and, if you're short on time, look at chapter 14 The Tao of Compost.
Here's Joseph visiting a festival using compost toilets and a composting system:
Minimum requirements:
- Promote humanure by bringing a compost toilet to an event for use by the attendees
- At least 50 attendees and 3 hours long
- At least one toilet cabinet with full supplies
- At least two containers/buckets
- Privacy stall
- Signage to educate and promote the idea
- Payload(s) leave with you to add to a humanure composting pile
- Must follow the Humanure Handbook philosophy
Provide proof of the following as pictures or
video (<2 min):
- Stall you set up for patrons to use
- Toilet cabinet, signage and supplies in a stall
- Promotional materials outside the stall
- Show the event has at least 50 attendees
- Adding the payload(s) to a humanure compost bin system