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  • From: gaia <gaia@oneota.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Grow with the flow! Urine charge. A golden opportunity
  • Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:52:04 -0500

Charles,
love this discussion.
I have been experimenting with all manner of things in search of the perfect pee container, for females, and here is my all-out fav thus far:

It is a flower vase, a lovely curvaceous one which is shaped wider at the top, narrows to a neck, and then wide at the bottom;
like the female shape itself.
When not in active use, the vase sits on the floor in a corner of the kitchen and is beautiful.

Gaianne


At 09:12 AM 10/15/2006 -0500, you wrote:

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
> T&T
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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