I am running a bucket system (Joe Jenkins style) and now I want to know how to get most of our new babies contributions into the pile. I looked up compostable...
I don't have a solution for you, but I want to complicate the argument about washable vs (ordinary) disposables. I don't even have a kid, or much experience...
Yes, a colleague of mine suggested the same - just compost standard nappies and pull out the plastic bits after composting. Are there no nasties in the nappy...
Did a little reading online, it seems that plastic gel junk isn't very pleasant. I wouldn't want it around. while I am composting some of my friend's kid's...
... It's much more eco friendly to use towling nappies and forget the synthetic ones. There is a campaign in the UK to encourage people to use the 'okd style'...
We used to have cotton nappies that were shaped like a modern throw-away nappy. They had velcros instead of the glue strips on the plastic ones. On the inside...
Yes, I realise there is a real nappies campaign all over the UK but it is interesting that one arm of the UK government is spending money on this while the...
there are quite a few eco-friendly options available these days - at least there are here, in Australia; I see no reason why the plastic disposables need to be...
Carl, all I will say is that there are vested interests are work and they have powerful lobbyists. The UK is no different to the US in that respect!...
I live in Las Vegas NV. I can't find cloth diapers any where. I like to use them as rags, but they stopped selling them a few years ago. They also had a...
that is really sad - I should have had another 6 children and kept the companies in business! well, what can we do that is seriously subversive to the plastics...
... Grace, me too! It IS the simplicity that gets me, I just wonder the the rest of the world does not wake up to it. As for nappies, does fabric version have...
There are cloth nappies on www.diapersetc.com/ and smart planet. I am sure there are others, perhaps under organic cotton fabric. We have an add on public...
People are lazy now. The don't want to do the work, get their hands dirty, etc.; they prefer to muck up the environment with plastic nappies. <snip> There...
They say oil will last our population another 60 yrs. I don't know what the U.S. will do afterward, but I hope my daughter teaches her children how to recycle...
... I am old enough to remember a time when there alternatives, plastic was around but there was not so much of it. Oil will run out one day but it will be a...
I hope I am not butting in here; but, I find this site so informative. Our Renaissance Faire here in Utah is trying to do compost toilets and be more green....
I'm an electrician by trade and in a lot of construction sites. Plastic buckets are plentiful, so recycling them as compost toilets for thousand of homes are a...
I'm quite happy with plastic buckets - they'll be in use for years to come and not in`a tip somewhere, like plastic packaging etc It would be great to recycle...
City Center here in L.V. has a great deal of construction material that has been recycled. I'm not sure of the percentage, but it is a HUGE GREEN project....
Hay all, Does anyone know where I could purchase a compost thermometer other then Joseph Jenkins, Inc. He sells them $25 a pop and there has to be a cheaper...
... The best thing to do with leaves is make leaf mould. It is exactly what it say, leaves that have decomposed using fungal rather than bacterial composting....
Dear Bert and dear Colleagues, I am "normally" at the ecosanres forum. I am a German water/ecosan Engineer with many international experiences. At the moment I...
Subject: Shit Happens: Chances for a Toilet Transition? MSc-Thesis by MS Jenneke van Vliet, 2006 (Trans(h)ition?) or: Niche Management and its Contribution to...
Hi, Thanks for posting the link to Ms. vanĀ Vliet's thesis. I am especially interested because I was born and raised in the Netherlands (now living in the...
The 3rd International dry toilet conference will take place 12-15 August, 2009 in Tampere, Finland. For more information please visit www.drytoilet.org/dt2009...
Hello all! We're looking at retrofitting a composting toilet system to our UK house, and I've been looking at micro-flush systems. These all seem to come with...
good morning all.....i'm new here and will read the older posts for a while to learn from what has been posted so far.....we're looking into purchasing a...
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