How to Make a Compost Toilet with a Wheelie Bin

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Compost toilets can be made with materials found just about anywhere. For a wheelie bin toilet, begin by drilling a hole at the bottom of the bin to attach a ball valve that will allow you to drain any surplus liquid from the bin. A filter can be created with a piece of pipe and some shade cloth fitted inside the bin, opposite the exterior valve.
In order to aerate the compost, measure the corners of the wheelie bin and cut a typical pipe in half to fit in the corners of the bin. The pipe should also have slits cut every few centimetres to allow air to reach the compost at all levels. Then, the pipe can be strapped into the corners of the bin.
Next, cut a piece of metal grill to fit within the pipes down to the bottom of the bin. That should be wrapped in a piece of shade cloth at least twice.
Then, get a second lid and cut a hole in it to allow the waste delivery pipe through. When the bin is full, the original lid will be used to seal it up for composting, and a new wheelie bin will be the active compost bin.
This is one of the most ethical ways to make a compost toilet that is safe and efficient with sensible materials. In less than a year, it turns humanure into a valuable commodity.
Key Takeaways:
• Dry composting toilets are a safe, efficient way to handle human waste, and they can easily be made with upcycled materials.
• A wheelie bin toilet needs a valve at the bottom to drain away any excess liquid.
• It needs slotted pipes moving vertically along the corners and a metal grate along the bottom to aid with aeration.
• The bin should keep its original top to seal off the full compost bin, while a second lid should be fitted to allow a waste delivery pipe into the bin.
• This is an ethical way to handle human waste with sensible materials.
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[@erNomic]

Geoff is the Chuck Norris of permaculture.

[@carstenschmucker9140]

Hmmm.... Chuck Norris eats compost for breakfast. But only with stones. For the vitamines. Geoff Norris is his lost brother. He works in secret under a composted (I mean covered) name.

[@amos288]

Rumor has it that Chuck Norris doesn't need a toilet He can hold his breath for 9 months

[@blacksoldierfly888]

I've made a couple of these and they are great cheap toilet for the DIY'er. The wheels mean that it is easier to move a bin full of crap around. On the other hand, one of the design issues is that a full wheelie bin this size is very heavy and difficult to maneuver in a small tight space (which is generally where they are). So not recommended for the average person to have to move a full bin this size- you don't want any bins tipping over which can happen as they are so tall and top heavy!! Options are to only fill the bin to 2/3 the volume or you can get wheelie bins in smaller sizes, but the trade off is that they will fill quicker. The smaller bins will also benefit setups where you have height restrictions and cannot install the bigger bins. You need to think about the access to the bin under the pedestal and getting the bin to where it will compost (needs 6-10 months as mentioned) while another one is being used. An addition to this model is installing a fan in the upper side or top of the bin and associated piping to reduce smells and increase air circulation to help the composting process and also a urine diverting seat and associated piping will greatly reduce bad odors! This has been revolutionary in our DIY composting toilet journey- installing a urine diverting seat. No more stinking toilet smells once you divert/ remove the urine from the pile- it's amazing!! If you go with peeing in the main chamber, be mindful of where you attach the urine drain as when you move the bin fittings can be easily snapped and in my experience are usually a point of leakage so seal them well! But I can't recommend enough diverting the urine from the pile in the first place. You also want to have the installation of the urine drain easy to access for cleaning and maintenance. A few tips.... .

[@ximono]

Excellent tips, thank you!

[@racebiketuner]

Yup. 96 gallon Toters are quite heavy when full. Their advantage is large diameter wheels. As long as the ground is hard and flat, they're pretty easy to move. If not, I make a path with corrugated corrugated cardboard or old fence boards. If you don't have a lot of material, you can make two 6-foot sections and advance by moving one section at a time.

[@veronicathecow]

Excellent tips, thank you.

[@williamhudson4938]

My first thought was, " how do I perch on top to crap in it"?

[@jettyeddie_m9130]

Do the gargoyle stance of course

[@hanamccarthy710]

Bury it in the ground and squat 😂

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Like a birb

[@John-pq4oi]

My last thought was “he’s getting real intimate with that humanure there”.

[@StilettoRedhot]

Oh my Lord! How simple! I knew there was a better way! And this system is going to save me a lot of money! Thank you!

[@kotk05]

India needs about a billion of those

[@matej9255]

China as well!

[@LlibertarianGalt]

the third world in general needs these

[@Zone10Permaculture]

People all over the world would benefit from this!

[@sergioluna7093]

Everyone needs this

[@darrisx8146]

@@matej9255 And the USA lol

[@ShaneAnnConnell]

Can you show us the type of toilet installed and how it connects to the wheelie bin downpipe please. Also in another video you showed how to connect a downpipe to help further wick the smells away please

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Wish this was legal everywhere!

[@capitainedemoi]

I feel like there was a whole section of this video missing? It went from placing a drainage layer to adding sawdust to suddenly closing the lid and leaving for 10months. No in between of explaining how the actual toilet works and the inside toilet etc? Would love to learn all that bit too....can you make another more detailed version for us green learners pleasw:0)

[@xyzsame4081]

Compost _toilet,_ (this is a bin ! for storage - it is is the next step in the process) ideally one of those toilets that separate urin and the feces or much more sawdust would be needed. They have them in campers (there is a lever and if you pull it, the whole in the back opens for number 2. If it is pee only it runs into an always open hole into the canister for urin, that can be emptied separately. And every shit must be covered by enough saw dust / wood chips that it will not stink (again people with nice campers use them). When the container for the solids is full they empty that (I think camping grounds handle that), or one would emty the content in the bin like the one model that Geoff showed. Then they put the container back and people can use the compost toilet again (maybe giving some sawdust on the bottom as well so the walls inside do not get dirty.

[@jasonb9652]

Agreed. Needs so much more information. When to swap? How to store when full? How to handle smells?

[@yLeprechaun]

It's, in It's simplest form, an outhouse. You build a box to set on that is placed over top the delivery pipe. You keep fresh sawdust in the same space. When you're done "depositing" you "flush" with a can or two of fresh sawdust. Whe. The wheely bin is full is how you know to move/exchange it. The beauty is, the sawdust added each time eliminates/blocks the odor. (I don't expect you to believe that, but it's true). The tricky part is realizing that you need a toilet space with a floor elevated to at least the height of the wheely bin. Hope this helps.

[@scrumptiousjdp]

@@jasonb9652 There are lots of other humanure videos to answer questions about The details of the filling process. This video was about building this kind of system.

[@holyfenrir6336]

Look up the humanure handbook

[@downbntout]

That could be any of many plant materials, not just sawdust. Dry grass, sugarcane bagasse, cornstalks, rice hulls...

[@TheUchoob]

This is so good.. Accessible... Affordable... Ethical... Thank you mate!

[@AK-ii6vn]

Awsome. I totally agree with your point that this is the most ethical way to handle our waste.

[@leighconway7159]

That's a garden hose you don't want to drink from

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

High in protein

[@SimplyBackwoods]

Excellent, Geoff. Best I've seen using humanure.

[@FranekCyganek25]

I got to say that's not only humanure for me Since I started doing it, my physical, mental and spiritual health inproved a lot. I recovered from a very hard and difficult to cure disease. Because of this, I could start doing in my life and invent many new things that I could not before due to poor health and poor general condition. Beacause of this, I was able to start working a lot physically and intellectually. I also feel better spritually- happier and freer to do good and generally as me and I can also give this happiness to others. The very sad thing is that people do not want to see that the changes that have taken place are the results of working towards humanure.

[@philgurian868]

Great information and nice presentation, thank you for sharing.

[@MayraAReyes]

Thanks a lot. I live in a zone that need to be preserve. But careless people do not know how to do it. Im working in a ecology proyect. But luck o money stop me. Now I will process with you kindness work. God bless you.

[@carlduffin]

Excellent. I use a bucket, old used compost for soak and a dalek composter for rendering the output.

[@anitamarskamp1866]

Great topic!! Thanks for posting! But it is a compost bin not a toilet. 😁 Show us your toilet Geoff 🙏💩 And do you add greens? I use the Joe Jenkins way.

[@daval5563]

Thanks I was looking for a Swedish model composting toilet. Been around for hundreds of years. Built in and permanent It needs height and a slope down one story to a door at the bottom for clean out once a year. The slope is "stepped" and the steps slope downward too. This allows the material to turn as it makes it's way to the bottom clean out. I'd like the proper degree of slope. Don't want to get plugged up because it was not steep enough and don't want it too steep either. It needs the time to fall and turn as it composts. Liquid drains out the bottom. It needs a high pipe to/through the roof that controls the smell with the natural up-draft that is created. This requires a tight lid so you're not losing the heat of the home. Air intake vents in the clean out door. I'm building with superadobe and it doesn't get much simpler than that. A hole in the floor would work and be healthy for you but I like the height of a toilet these days. Did you know "squatting" is the natural way to go? Your bowel hole opens fully and operates properly when squatted and only half works on a toilet. It leads to problems later in life. Don't ask me how I know. IBS anyone? How about a "leaky" hole? And it's not the one in the floor! When I was young I was shown a hole in the floor as the toilet and told the people were substandard, ... little did I know that I was the substandard one. Nothing natural and organic was good enough for this idiot eh? Not when it can be "New And Improved", for profit that is. I've since discovered that profit is a lie and like all lies needs the constant expenditure of time and energy to exist. Your time and energy. Right Santa? Profit is the method used to concentrate the abundance of "our" world into the hands and control of the few, the elite, the entitled, and the great winners in a perverted world of win/lose. This hoarded abundance is then used to control and direct a population of brainwashed "for profit" economic slaves who only understand, worship, and practice the childish win/lose as civilised. Don't ask me how I know, .... Man, everything that's wrong with me was beaten into me as a child under constant threat of being wrong, making a mistake, failing, and being a filthy loser. The academic win/lose eh? The win/lose, just a disrespectful and childish understanding of our live/die life. Except you don't die silly! You just don't have an opinion that matters and your abilities MUST benefit the winners. I'm working on the Ways of the Win/Win and am happy knowing the future people will know that the work and the Ways of the Win/Win was born of their filth and failure, (that would be ME!) and not their wisdom or honour. The poor perverted people of the win/lose have no wisdom or honour. Sad but true. I know this because I once thought I had a little honour. Never even thought I was wise and still don't. I'm just doing a dirty job that must be done. You know, asking why people allow their own children to be born owing a debt of lies and corruption called "eternal growth and profit". Why do we allow our children to be born slaves? Easily denied eh? specially by the "free". lol, lol, lol, ... Then there's the paradigm shift from "for profit", to, "Not For Profit". A community owned Economic Win/Win based in time alone, backed by the abundance of "our" world and built on a foundation of Truth and Reality. Oh yeah, ... the paradigm shift is given freely and unconditionally. That alone makes it "suspect" eh? Then there's the cowards who drool "Commie". lol Sorry for using your post to plant these seeds of Win/Win, ... but I learned from the win/lose and don't play fair! Have a great one.

[@mark-goldenrod]

This was how to build a shitter not talk about it

[@daval5563]

@@mark-goldenrod Oh,oh, some idiot was coloring outside the lines again! And of course, another idiot has to point it put.

[@intimatespearfisher]

Turds and wee, along with a little paper, move along quite nicely at about 16.5mm per meters fall in a 100mm pipe.

[@TMEC22]

It seems you have a good overview of the political nature of man. I view the win/lose competition to be a great hobbling of mankind. I would like to discuss these topics further and in more detail at a later date. Regarding compost toilet. This video showed a half pipe in each corner of rolly bin. Are they meant to have free air flow or forced air flow or is static air sufficient?

[@oilspeculatorhater]

Great information, thank you for sharing.

[@christianrodriguez2561]

Best I've ever seen!, cheers mate!

[@HeatherNaturaly]

I would like to see the actual toilet inside the house...Is it just like a long drop? Do you keep adding sawdust?

[@darrisx8146]

You add sawdust after every use until you have covered it so it has no smell. Sawdust is "flushing" basically.

[@ripme6616]

Hang around as long as you like.. hey😆

[@elizabethsdesk]

Truly a good system.

[@inyayardhomestead5693]

G'day mate, this is a really good idea I'm going to use this on my farm. Thanks.

[@conniethesconnie]

Not sure where you live but I have a feeling you may need to do this on the down low to keep from having trouble with regulatory agencies.

[@canopus8012]

Wow thats very tempting, a wheelie bin compost dunny that costs maybe 100 bucks per year or a council approved aerated dunny with an annualised cost of about 1500.

[@josoffat7649]

Humanure... absolutely brilliant!

[@JE-ee7cd]

Permaculture FTW! ✌

[@magicdaveable]

Hi Geoff. It been a really long time since "hearing " from you. Excellent Video.

[@intimatespearfisher]

For a better water tight thread through the bin for the ball valve. Go to reece irrigation and get a 20mm water tank adaptor. They screw together either side and clamp against the bin with water tight rubber flange either side.

[@mansinghnayak9634]

Thanks for sharing 👍👌

[@lindasands1433]

Good one!! Thanks 👍

[@citizena506]

I love you man.

[@fubarlife7776]

Thank you kindly ✌️

[@bullykuttabullylovedogs2018]

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[@scrumptiousjdp]

My brother Has a similar system without the air pipes. He uses black soldier fly larva which do a great job. You never see the adult flies Or smell much of anything.

[@erixariddell2172]

Fantastic!

[@balmoralwatersportscentere909]

Thank you

[@JE-ee7cd]

Awesome! 😃

[@cherryyance1782]

Excellent ❤

[@umomar1000]

when the lid is closed wouldn't that Block air ventalation and thus lead to anaerobic decomposition that we are trying to avoid?

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

I suggest have another smaller pipe way going upwards, or a ''crossroad'' of the main pipe at the top. The smell would go out there also have proper ventilation. An better solution to this is one with a crank, soon as you are done, crank it so it mixes up with the compost material. Another old solution but effective if made properly. Look it up.

[@glomontero6011]

Thank you. I wish everyone that has a lg yard make one. Special in the So. West water shortages places.

[@mrtumnus41]

muchos awesome

[@NicholasLittlejohn]

Delicious!

[@joseortiz5965]

Awesome. Ty

[@traceykirk4617]

Dog looks happy as

[@tdtd6728]

did not show this collectors relation to the toilet which has to be on the second floor ?

[@madsnygaard8354]

Great info - thanks mate! :-)

[@droptozro]

Love it, looks a lot easier to care for instead of a 5 gallon bucket. But... convince my local county to change the codes first so they don't make me tear it apart. Our society is all about "false Green"--they'd never allow natural poop to go where it's supposed to and cycle into the ground outside of expensive dug up septic leech systems. They're all talk and no real practical leadership-type action. We have a septic... but if it ever goes bad I'm in no hurry to fix it cause I know how to naturally deal with this stuff like nature does(and Geoff teaches). I'd just never be able to sell my home until I fixed our septic if it broke.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

droptozro, right!? I hear ya!

[@OfftoShambala]

You can keep your normie toilet, just don’t use it and use a compost toilet anyways… wtf?

[@lifeafterdeath6709]

Nice

[@rmason5477]

Great also recycling

[@joatmofa0405]

Gave the video a like, but I do feel like there were a couple of steps left out of the explainer video...?

[@Stephen_Strange]

2011 post on Milkwood website, the exact same thing. They are also permies like us !

[@truthbetold2611]

Genius : )

[@keekofox116]

is this a portable septic tank?????? this is soo smart!

[@Stephen_Strange]

Has any 'professional' criticised this idea? I like it a lot.

[@rinchhensherpa6972]

This Valentine's day i am thinking of making myself a compost toilet, here in UK 🤔

[@EstebanZavalaF]

Thank you! Currently the only waste we produce in my house is my dogs & ours manure. I was looking for the next step, so im changing my bathroom to dry one, and i was thinking on putting a biodigestor, so probably im going to place this one, and the other 6months will gas them... Thank you for all the information

[@racebiketuner]

Worm medicine for pets is eliminated in their poop. It's non selective, so it will kill all worms in the soil.

[@carolewarner101]

May I ask how you vent this kind of compost toilet? Also wondering how you keep the "delivery pipe" clean. Would be great if you had a link to the plans for this in greater detail. Is that possible. Many thanks!

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

There is a book "Humanure Handbook" that may have diagrams.

[@khandam7709]

make delivery pipe big like 8 or 10" diameter and it wont' get anything on it.

[@Chimonger1]

People commonly repurpose 5 or 6 gallon buckets, bottoms cut out, as a drop-pipe. BUT…since this bin has a drain for liquids, he could technically just flush a regular toilet, & have the normal waste pipe feed into the top of the bin, or top side of the bin (referrence: “Solviva” book by Anna Eddy). As long as the compost media is loose enuf, to allow fluids fast-passage to the bottom drain, the solids, + worms, do the work at the top of the compost media pile. Fluids out the drain, can be routed right to the garden via a slotted or perforated drain pipe, under the surface (out of sight)-gardens love the extra nitrogen. At the Solviva farm, they actually built a double chamber compost box at least 8’ h. X 2’x4’, insulated well against cold winters, w/a divider down the middle. & they added worms to the top of the pile in the chambers. Their old, high-flush toilet waste pipe was rerouted to the 1st chamber. It worked great, even tho they had some weekend seminars with up to 30 (?) or so people using that toilet, it never had a problem. At 1 year, upon checking (thinking surely they’d need to swab sides), the 1st chamber was doing great, no need to swap chambers! But that toilet was in there upstairs. Bins & tall compost chambers don’t work as well if there’s only a low crawlspace, & of course, no way, if house is on-slab. One unit made in Africa, has an outside bin; waste lands on a big acme screw, which turns each time the toilet seat lid is opened or shut, carrying solids out to the exterior chamber, where worms compost it, & its lid gives access for cleaning out the compost. Worms can help that compost faster too. Worms abate the coliform bacteria Code officials worry about. I think this is the one-looking at the page, it’s the one on the left…waterless, picture shows a diagram of it. www.esan.co.za/off-grid-sanitation-solutions/

[@carolewarner101]

@@Chimonger1 Thank you for responding. I'm not having any luck finding the diagram of which you speak. Would you mind clarifying how I can find that on the link you've sent me? Many thanks!

[@crimerk]

Interesting idea...just wondering if enough oxidation is coming inside the container ...the tubes in the edges???

[@slikasrick]

crimerk yep he says they’re for airation

[@racebiketuner]

Providing the slots are not obstructed and they're less than 24 inches apart, the half-pipes don't need pressurized air to work. However, a pulse of air every half hour will definitely speed up decomposition.

[@JP-sm4cs]

Anyone got advice for starting a permaculture plot near Valencia?

[@TreDogOfficial]

Fascinating! Good share

[@nicolasespositochedel]

Genio!

[@beliver6230]

Great video no bullshit talking 🇦🇺

[@highrisingglasgow]

when im older i might meak one of these

[@przybyla420]

If you’re new to this and not elderly, disabled or in very cold climates... the simplest toilet is a tiny garden shed that isn’t tightly built, built on top of a platform made from pallets screwed to posts on concrete footings. Put this near your front door, ideally in a spot that won’t get sun all day in summer. Line the composting chamber with black poly, and mound up soil or gravel as a base to keep surface runoff away from seeping through the bottom of your heap. Better than sawdust is rotted wood duff, but this is harder to find.

[@przybyla420]

Don’t pee on the heap unless necessary. If you only have to go number one, you need to use a separate (much simpler) toilet that goes to a large camper plastic bag, whatever one calls those things. Put this in the same outhouse.

[@przybyla420]

You want it enclosed in a shed for cold drafts in the middle of the night.

[@HalfKaztBoy]

why do you not recommend peeing on the heap?@@przybyla420

[@steadypresencefarms]

Could you also stick a bunch of pipes with holes in it like Johnson Su?

[@jamesbounsall5478]

Hey mate - how many bins would one need for 2 people? Surely one bin would be full every 2 months? So 6 bins? thanks

[@johannedufort5900]

Would you have any idea how to build compost toilets for a house please ???

[@Chimonger1]

It’s really great design! ….except it only works for bathrooms that are up off ground high enough to give clearance to put the bin underneath to catch the waste.

[@katesaffin4148]

Could work as a compost bin to empty smaller containers into

[@Chimonger1]

@@katesaffin4148 Try getting ahold of a copy of book, “Solviva” by Anna Eddy (sp?) She invented a multi-bucket potty that uses a big bin full of loose mulch & worms. As each bucket is filled with wastes+ cover material, it gets overturned onto the mulch + worms, & left there. By the time the last of maybe 10 buckets gets turned over onto the mulch, the 1st bucket has been nicely cleaned out by the worms. Worms abate the disease-causing bacteria that permitting agents worry so much about. If you used a wheelie bin as a worm compost container, you could actually adapt that to use for a flush-toilet, too….(also see Solviva’s 2nd system).

[@shandena777]

Um trying to understand how the delivery pipe hooks into the toilet… very new to composting type systems and trying to figure out how to implement in my off grid journey! Any advice would be appreciated

[@MESS1]

Greetings! After closing the bin, no more air goes in? Does it remain like that for the following months until reopening to collect the precious compost? My bin is a 55gl metal barrel filled to 3/4, sawdust at the base and after each use, warm wearher (south Portugal). I have sealed it with its cover. Is that a correct procedure? Thank you for any help. Cheers!

[@Chimonger1]

If bin is totally sealed, waste has a hard time composting. I think he needed to show ventilation better…those corner pipes were slotted to ventilate the pile inside…the bin must have a pipe to vent to outside, & an air intake, to prevent the pile stagnating. He also did not mention adding worms to the pile…those abate coliform bacteria that officials worry about, & compost the solids faster & with less smell. He did not say what kind of toilet-but the size of the entry hole indicates it’s a dry toilet with a simple drop-pipe that diameter. If you check out Anna Edey’s book, Solviva, you’ll find, a bin like that could simply get the house waste pipe from the regular flush toilet rerouted into the top of the bin. In that case, fill the bin at least half to 3/4 full of loose peat + worms. And, instead of a simple garden hose carrying away liquids, drain the bin to a leach field type slotted pipe laid just under surface along planting beds in the garden, giving them the nitrogen. Anna invented a couple different low-tech systems that are basically contained so they cannot spread any coliforms anywhere. www.solvivagreenlight.com/solviva_website/

[@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS]

I have 3 normal compost bins full of red worms compositing worms. Iv read that they don't like human waste so I decided to experiment. I put some of my own toilet waste in one of the bins and after a cupple weeks it was jam packed with worms. I suspect they like my waste because I have a diet high in fruit and veg and low in meat. The compost from that bin is for trees and shrubs only to be safe.

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

They have no problem with any human waste.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Interesting in deed. I’m not sure our society could get any more uptight and bacteria-phobic! We’re on 2 1/2 acres just outside the city and I’m beginning to think that we’re not far enough! I love this idea. When u have a family of 7 on a septic it makes you open up to older ways. Bring on the permaculture!!

[@salmacuppini6772]

I live in a mobile home and have built a urinal separator myself with a 5 liter (small) bucket at the back, I use a decomposing plastic bag with sawdust and tie a knot and throw it out after every toilet visit, now I have bought a small house in the country and would like to use the same system, but I would like to compost my small bags in possibly down some small bags of kitchen waste would that work in your opinion?or would the mixture be too dry? I could possibly lead the urine down into the same bucket via a separate pipe system. even if it sounds silly. but I think that the bags will be dumped in a waste shaft with a 12v ventilation installed and the urinary system will be fitted with a valve. I expect it will be both odor-free and easy to clean

[@LibzBeans]

I live in Canada so any outdoor latrine style bathroom would have freezing issues. What considerations should be thought of for this style of bathroom in colder climates?

[@khandam7709]

dig a basement and keep it insulated is the best way. you could also super insulate it with 20" of foam all around it with small light bulb heat sourc.e

[@RichieRich845]

Without sounding disgusting or cruel, can you add compost worms? Living in the suburbs what would you do with the liquid, my neighbour is down hill from me, i wouldn't be asking if I didn't like him.

[@samualiam9981]

I didn't see if Geoff had a video on it but look up "Botanical cell sewage treatment" on Google. Might be helpful.

[@rungus24]

I was looking at a wormery site yesterday and they had wormeries for pet poo, so I assume yes? The important thing about humanure, though, is that pathogens can last for (or so I've read) about two years, so you shouldn't really use them before that, and it would just be safer in general not to use them around salads, where the bit you eat is in contact with the humanure. As for the urine, it would be better in the suburbs to separate urine from solids. Urine is clean and sterile when it's fresh, as long as you don't have a urine infection, but it quickly turns into a breeding ground for microbes if you don't use it quickly, be that on a compost heap or mixed with water as a fertiliser.

[@rungus24]

Yes, I just found this video where a guy is talking about combining a composting toilet with worms and with bokashi composting all in one system. No idea if it's a good system though, but it seems to work for him. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmKraIqYaJqcqdk

[@ashleighcash4681]

i have just started one like this an i use turkey nest instead of saw dust i am adding worms to help brake it down .i am hoping the nest materal will work better than saw dust as it is allready acataved no smale so fare

[@RichieRich845]

@@ashleighcash4681 Thanks for the reply. My local council won't approve this where I live, I was just wondering. Do worms eat saw dust?

[@yusukeiwakawa6797]

Can you use the round American style plastic garbage cans about 84cm tall in the place of the wheeled bins? I'm thinking about building a outhouse, and worried about the height requirements. If I used the wheeled bin I'd have to build the outhouse 1.2 meters + off the ground on a dirt mound? I know it have to be emptied more often, than if not. Thank you.

[@rebeccabrown596]

Can you use this method for waste from a campers black water tank?

[@biocharatiquizaya1760]

Do you glue the half pipes to the walls?

[@Globeldrifter]

can you use the compost on vegetables? or only trees/bushes??

[@psionicentity86]

im curing why you suggest directing the surplus liquid to a gravel trench or reed bed. cant you use it to fertilize trees/veg garden? if so, what dilution ratio should be used? same as urine?

[@platypus6523]

What happens if the evacuation of the human processed food is explosive? If the thing gets on all the walls of the bin, will it disapear with the compost?

[@mattsmith2051]

So are you separating the urine from this build or that’s what the drainage aspect is for?

[@lauriesmith7517]

What about medications excreted by the body?

[@violetfeinberg7917]

What do the pipes (half pipes) in the corners do? I see that they help with air and ventilation but they are under the lid, so is there air in the pipes but not much air flow? How does this help? Does it help air get down under the level the bin is filled to? I guess you're adding wood chips every time you make a deposit?

[@69shanewarren]

They help siphon liquids to the bottom of the bin where they can be emptied through the tap

[@platypus6523]

I made some research. They permit all the gases to get up the delivery pipe, and you have a chimney with a ventilator just above the pipe. Like this you catch the gases before they escape the toilet. The chimney is on the toilet, above the pipe.

[@enricoghidoni1570]

Hey Geoof, thanks for the video, looks great! Doesn't the humanure require air to compost in the proper way? Will stinky air get out of the toilet with such a system?

[@DiscoverPermaculture]

No the is drawn up the exhaust chimney so no bad smells.

[@petroskronis]

@@DiscoverPermaculture What exhaust chimney? I didn't see anything mentioned about the exhaust chimney. Where is this attached?

[@khandam7709]

@@petroskronis the four big ass white pvc pipes in the container

[@StrawmnMcPerson]

@@khandam7709 But the way it's shown, it looks like the four big ass pvc pipes are closed up under the lid ?

[@djazt.8053]

I guess the toilet bowl incl. urine separation (if it has that) and the exhaust chimney is just not covered in this video. Judging from compost toilet designs frequently used in campervans, an exhaust chimney is a long tube extending behind and up over the toilet, going through the outer wall or roof. It is often supported with an extraction vent and removes any smells by creating a slight underpressure in the toilet bowl.

[@kalo924]

We have a very similar composting toilet. We have a lot of problems with fungus gnats. Have you experienced this? Do you have a suggestion for a control method?

[@joejolly3430]

Better seals?

[@dungeonmaster6292]

Dragonflies or bats or frogs

[@racebiketuner]

Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of BTI on top of every gallon of organic matter. It's completely safe to all life forms except fungus gnats and mosquitos. I use the Mosquito Bits brand. Hang up a sheet of yellow flypaper to catch the stragglers.

[@maryhester8305]

What does the toilet look like, that has the pipe to it to the wheelie bin

[@lesliekendall2206]

Question. Why don't homes with indoor plumbing use the vented methane as a renewable heating and cooking source?

[@lunizparlein173]

There is not a Good business

[@misadventureswiththemartys312]

Does peat moss work the same?

[@katherinek.henkel8785]

Hi there, I live in a place that unfortunately is forbidden because the neighbors made and gave a lot of flys. Whether it's on the covered part of my backyard or inside the house, is there any way to compose my poop in a closed/sealed box? What would you have to do? Put extra bacterias? Put a humidifier in it? - A oxygenator? Helppp God bless u guys ❤️🙏🏼

[@jarobroeklander6117]

How many bins do people use? I have six bins, live with my husband and four dogs and am constantly running out of space… been doing this for two years and had to transfer unfinished compost into big bags on the land… any help appreciated!

[@MissZazamix]

Would it take the same time in the UK? How about Mediterranean countries?

[@Londonfogey]

It's a great idea. But how do I get the binmen to collect it?

[@tyebo2010]

🤣

[@cditzler6313]

so you need to make more than one bin then when one fills up you switch it with a new one let sit for 10 months then empty and put back in line for refill? even if you make more than a couple its still cheaper than the others at 2000. usd

[@pannabale5537]

Hey! I saw ur idea of making but i want to ask if i want to make compost out of septic tank waste would it work then and cant we use soil for it ...or could be a mixture of soil-sawdust? Please reply it'll be a really great help....

[@przybyla420]

No, you don’t. Too wet and stinky (and unsanitary), and to be safe, composting of human waste needs to be aerobic; septic tanks are anaerobic.

[@Chimonger1]

One guy in UT, removed the top of his septic tank, replacing it with a window-lid to give it solar heat. He installed an air inlet pipe at one corner, $p& an air vent pipe at the diagonal corner, painted that black for solar-boosted ventilation. His flush toilet flushed to the septic box same as before, except instead of it being anaerobic, his system was then aerobic. The old concrete septic tank had a cracked bottom, so, liquid did not stay in it, but drained below. He used a separator toilet, so urine went out to irrigate the garden (giving that nitrogen). Just the poops went to the now solar tank. He said it worked great, even long-term. Drawback would be emptying it. But, since poops compost down & lose most of its volume, it’s probly gonna take years before it needs excavated. If you have a regular flush toilet on an upper floor of house, Anna Eden has a solution for that! Read the “Solviva” book by Anna Edey. It’s got 2 excellent designs that are self-contained. One of those connects a regular flush toilet to a composting volume built on the side of the house with the waste pipe from toilet, rerouted to it. The other uses a multi-bucket system, that has worms both composting, & cleaning the buckets to be ready for next use. Worms are the key! www.solvivagreenlight.com/solviva_website/

[@darrisx8146]

Why does this method work without a separate compost pile? I know it doesn't work inside 5-gallon buckets because there isn't enough mass to create the heat necessary to destroy the pathogens. How much mass do you need for hot composting to happen? And how does the plastic of the wheelie bin handle that heat?

[@SentoHug]

This would be considered slow composting as you adding mass slowly to it and then letting it break down over about 10 months. So it wouldn't generate much heat. The initial chips just help kick start the system

[@abhealth6531]

We are in process of building one that should make Mr. Lawton proud. Question, does sawdust have to be added after every solid use, or just put the 20L sawdust on the bottom as described in the video?

[@eg6308]

Having visited Zaytuna farm I can tell you that you need to add sawdust or whatever after each deposit. Basically if you don't cover what you did then it will smell.

[@ximono]

@@eg6308I think the sawdust is more for the C/N ratio, not to stop any smell. The fan taks care of that.

[@nesiansides7133]

can we observe the ventilation design please? im proposing this design for conservation department campsites, the sites are free but campers not using provided "long drop" containment unit. they doing their business in random places on reserve sites "gross" departments only talk but doing is another. cheers.

[@thegreatcornholio7255]

So, that hose thing... it's ok just to drain that out into the open? If i'm not missing something, would that be urine and "poop juice" that's being drained?? Thanks very much for the information, I'm hoping to build one of these.

[@weaseljim6317]

I heard from someone who made one that he drained it into a bucket and dumped that on the compost heap.

[@EnergetikSo4i]

Hello, tell me please, do you pour more sawdust and how often?

[@Don_Julio805]

Александр Костин after you are doing pooping or peeing I’d suggest pouring in a few cups of sawdust. You want to cover your poop with it so there’s no flies trying to get to it.

[@przybyla420]

Add it each time it’s used, just a cup or a couple handfuls. It must be fine “browns” to have a lot of surface area to prevent anaerobic digestion.

[@joejolly3430]

Does anybody know if tree/bark chippings would be ok. I fear all the saw dust from saw mills etc will be contaminated with rot preventing chemicals. Any thoughts?

[@MrMadalien]

@@joejolly3430 Chemicals are not a major issue in compost, the process will break down anything from pesticides to fucking uranium