Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting
February 21, 2010 at 12:28 am 1 comment
“For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually he takes the resulting soil and spreads it over his vegetable garden as fertilizer.
“It’s an alternative sanitation system,” says Jenkins, “where there is no waste.” His 255-page Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure is in its third edition and has been translated into five languages, but it has only recently begun to catch on. His message? Human manure, when properly managed, is odorless. His audience? Ecologically committed city dwellers who are looking to do more for the earth than just sort their trash or ride a bike to work.”
read the entire article at TIME
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Marjory | February 26, 2010 at 6:19 am
One compost heap may not be an issue but you wonder what it would be like if everybody did it. I watched this Focus Factor video and in the past where there was no sewage treatment, things got a little dicey.