permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Another one is the one done by Anna Edey of solviva.com, she says she can 
break down human waste into black potting soil in 2 months using worms and 
her particular design which doesn't entail handling the waste directly until 
it has completely broken down.

--- On Tue, 2/22/11, Leslie Moyer <unschooler@lrec.org> wrote:

From: Leslie Moyer <unschooler@lrec.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Composting toilet for Community Garden
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 8:37 PM

You might look at a Sunny John mouldering toilet, too.  It has some of the 
features Ray mentioned, including a solar-assist ventilation system:
http://www.sunnyjohn.com/


On Feb 22, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Scott Vlaun wrote:

> HI All,
> 
> Our community garden in Norway Maine is looking for a "best practice" 
> solution to compost human waste on site. (Not for use in the garden)
> 
> Since the garden is in a neighborhood, we need to avoid any odor issues. 
> I'm a long-time sawdust/bucket/bin humanure composter, but for a public 
> site like this we need something that requires no handling of "live" waste 
> and will be a good demonstration/model for the community.
> 
> During the season we might have a dozen or more people using the toilet on 
> a given day. Winter use would be very limited, but it would be great to 
> have a system that works in the cold as well. The site is off-grid so high 
> electric use is not an option.
> 
> Any thoughts, links, or references to working systems would be much 
> appreciated.
> 
> Enjoy the strengthening sun!

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