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Aren't there toilets that turn human waste into compost? Isn't that the ideal goal of the Gates' Foundation challenge?
by chiefalchemist 3y ago
Aren't there toilets that turn human waste into compost? Isn't that the ideal goal of the Gates' Foundation challenge?
- red-iron-pine 3y agothere is a reason it is a 'challenge'. they'll kind of do that, but not without specialized treatments, lots of dirt, and lots of worms. and those critters may not work in all climates.
- stOneskull 3y agoyeah, straw in a container under the toilet works. the straw absorbs it up. then you can use it on fruit trees. humanure.
- tstrimple 3y agoI was looking into composting toilets for a while when I was day dreaming about a camper van build. Based on what I saw, the systems which use peat moss are very effective at composting human waste and virtually eliminating all the smells. The key to these systems is to separate solid matter from the liquid which is where the "sewage" smells tends to come from. A number of the systems I looked at used urine diversion to keep the solids more dry and speed up composting.