Subject: Re: [permaculture] Composting toilet for Community Garden
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:37:43 -0600
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!