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Double bin compost bin. Made with twenty odd year old treated lumber from my old jungle gym. Hardware cloth sides with wood slat front for easy access.
Open to show compost pile start.
Compost fly - Scatopse sp. Think it must have recently emerged as the wings are not full length yet. Focus stacked using zerene
"This low maintenance mouldering toilet, built in 2001 by a Home Design/Build class, is based on the Gap Mountain Permaculture design. The toilet features two separate lined concrete block bins. Only one bin is operational at a time, allowing the other bin’s waste to settle, decompose, and become usable compost, also known as “humanure.” "
It's really nice and airy inside. The raised roof design makes you feel like, well, like you're not inside a toilet.
Ok, here is the completed project. Well, I have to clean it up a lot. The concrete/mortar smears should come off in the morning with a hose and a stiff brush. (I hope!)
So I guess when Pep$i began green washing their sun chips brand with compostable bags, they meant "compostable*," not compostable. This is after a month and a half in a regularly rotated Envirocycle composter. I'll check again in another few months.
One wheelbarrow full of compost covered about 80 square feet where I replanted grass. I had to spend over an hour pulling all the weeds out first.
We built this compost bin over the weekend using instructions from Lowe's ( www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=howTo&p=LawnGarden/com... ). It has a hinged lid, removable slats in the front, and ventilated side panels.
This photo shows it in action, decomposing in the left container.
This composting Toilet is located in one of the world’s first green buildings, the award winning CK Choi Building at UBC - the sanitary waste is eliminated through the use of this composting toilets, which do not require water for flushing | Este banheiro de compostagem esta localizado num dos primeiros predios verdes do mundo, o premiado CK Choi Building na UBC - os degetos sao eliminado sem uso de agua para descarga - Vancouver (Jul-2011)
Garden rubbish form the York green bins is turned into good quality compost which can be sold or used to cover former landfill areas.
Having stayed before at places with "dry latrines" and such, we were comfortable using this smart system. #2 goes in the back: you first move the lid over with your foot, dump a cup of ash in, do your thing, then dump another cup of ash in. Pee into the front part, then dump a cup of water down afterwards. This filters pee through the ground in a special way before it heads into the water sources. The #2 excrement turns into fertilizer. Not a fly or bad odor, I might add!
Farming Matters 31.1 - Soil for life - page 18-20
By: U Kyaw Saing
www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/soils-for-li...