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  • From: KNat <knat@sprintmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Grow with the flow! Urine charge. A golden opportunity
  • Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:12:14 -0500

Charles de Matas wrote:
I wish someone would come up with a convenient way for women to collect their urine. I would like to get my sister who is 60 now and lives in Toronto to come back to Trinidad, since there is some spare room in my brother's house. I've never mentioned to her my interest in collecting urine or humanure and I'm not sure if she will like the idea.

Charles
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Probably best addressed as a sustainability consideration rather than a personal interest. Conversation gets easier then. To generalize for the list, if women get involved in planning you can also discuss menstrual fertilizer opportunity.

General urine collection resource ideas at:
http://www.ecovita.net/products.html
if interested in a specific product check around on pricing or other similar designs.

or for outdoors or simplicity
http://www.travelmateinfo.com/page002.html
(there are 2 others that work well, I'm aware of, but one uses permeated plastic designed to kill growth, the other is disposable)

Aside, for those who don't know, _How to Shit In the Woods_ has been updated and now reportedly includes more appropriate zipper designs for pants (I haven't read it yet myself since I'm cheap and my library wouldn't get the first edition so I'm not asking, I'm waiting to find it used. But I hear it's good.)

In designing composting systems for food plant use, consider also effects of people using antibiotics or systemic birth control. I've been places where there are lists of who should not use resident's buckets and the yeast content is way different even if you don't care about the chemicals. A Plan B for those situations seems necessary.






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