Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Humanure 101



Sawdust toilet and sawdust bucket under cover.



Step 1: Do your business in toilet on the right.




Step 2: Scoop sawdust from bucket on left.



Step 3: Pour sawdust on your deposits, making sure to cover them with a nice thick layer of sawdust.



Step 4: Spray layer of sawdust with water in order to lock in odors. Close toilet---dump out
contents in to compost bin when the sawdust seems high enough that it may touch your butt the next time you sit down!



Step 1: Bring full buckets o'honey, kitchen compost pail and soap to bin.



Step 2: Get straw to cover compost pile deposits.






Step 3: Open and dump all wonderfully non-smelly buckets of honey and kitchen waste in to middle of compost bin.


Step 4: Rinse all buckets with soap. Pour soapy sawdust water in to compost bin as well.



Step 5: All contents in bin including blackwater. Cover with a thick layer of straw and PAU!


It has been a truly amazing experience to be using this waste management system. It's easy. It's sanitary. And it's positively amazing that when you open the buckets to dump---they DO NOT smell--nor does the compost bin! You can literally stick your head in the middle of the compost bin and take a BIG whiff, all you smell is dirt and straw! Cool!

Check out the book: The Humanure Handbook, by Joseph Jenkins
www.josephjenkins.com










3 comments:

  1. I have been meaning to read this blog since day one, but it's funny how you allow little things to get in the way and all of a sudden there are 43 entries here! I have to say without any bias or agenda that this is probably the most interesting and entertaining thing I have read in quite some time. I just started from the first post today and told myself I would read a few every day, but lo and behold I just kept reading and reading. This blog is fascinating and I know I will continue following it for as long as it goes. Keep up the amazing journey!

    -Bryson

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  2. wow! Andrew looks like one HOT construction worker dumping some "honey"!!!
    where is the hot mama?

    ;-p

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  3. awesome you guys, i am truly impressed with your waste management system, and no mafia jokes here!

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