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Why do you bother with all those things.Use our paperleaftoilet.See attachmentRegards Hans Baarslag...
tbhamar
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Oct 4, 2004
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Why do you have to bother with all those things.Move the actual composting to the uotside and use a paperleaftoilet in your house. regards Hans Baarslag...
tbhamar
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Hello You can find an alternatve at the website:www.de12ambachten.nlThey sell a yachtversion of the paperleaftoilet.If your boat was bigger I would advise you...
tbhamar
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Grates, rotating drums, etc. help with the processing inside the toilet. The paperleaf toilet is about secondary processing elsewhere. Sonsie Jamay ... ...
Sonsie Jamay
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Oct 5, 2004
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The Jenkins sawdust toilet is also about composting elsewhere. That is the method we chose. www.green-trust.org = = = Original message = = = Grates, rotating...
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Dear All I will be building an outdoor privy before the winter weather starts to kick in. We currently use the Jenkins sawdust bucket system with a seat and a...
Robert Donald
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We use our Jenkins indoors, right where the old water unit used to be. = = = Original message = = = Dear All I will be building an outdoor privy before the...
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Hi Spence Unfortunately the rest of the household are against having it indoors :-( so I'm having to resort to outdoors. Bob ... ...
Robert Donald
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There are books on how to build a privy. My library here in Maine has one. My toilets are also inside now. Sonsie Jamay ... _______________________________ Do...
Sonsie Jamay
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I'm probably mistaken, but I thought the advantage of the sawdust bucket system was that it could be used indoors and emptied outside when required. Is the...
Jeff Williams
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Hi Bob, If you have to build your toilet outside, in an outdoor privy, strawbale building would be a possibility and a very comfortable one! If I remember...
Bert Vercauteren
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I am not certain about the sawdusttoilet, but for the paperleaftoilet your observation is right.You can use it up to 60 times inside your home before having to...
tbhamar
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Hi Jeff As much as I would like the sawdust bucket system to be indoors unfortunately the majority of the household are not keen on the idea of the bucket...
Robert Donald
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Ah, so it's a marketing problem that you have. Now if the bucket and box enclosure happened to cost $350, I suspect everyone would be fine with it ; ) Jeff ......
Jeff Williams
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G'day all, Good to see this making the news. "Dunny" by the way which is a word used in this story, is Australian slang for toilet. Lismore flushed with water...
Stephen Selden
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Hi all, My friend has a composting toilet and is very happy with it but he misses the flush sound. Just wondering if anyone has found a sound effect machine or...
shejustwantstobe
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We've been using a Eco-san toilet of the squatting type with a urine seperating barrel on the first floor. We've been using coconut pith for the solids portion...
vishwanath s
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We also use coconut coir (fibre) in our composting toilet. Pure untreated sawdust is actually hard to find in my area. Sonsie Jamais Maine, USA ... ...
Sonsie Jamay
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We have 6 Amish sawmills, and two non-Amish sawmills locally (upstate NY), so sawdust is readily available and free. Where does one find coconut fiber in...
Steve Spence
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A large bale that lasts about 2+ years is available at the garden supply center for USD $8. It cuts down on odor more than sawdust did. Sonsie J. ... ...
Sonsie Jamay
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Interesting. Thanks. Steve Spence Dir., Green Trust http://www.green-trust.org...
Steve Spence
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Whats also interesting is that the coconut goes into the food (par of our daily diet here) and the pith/fibre on what comes out. Clean closing of the ...
vishwanath s
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Nov 16, 2004
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Sawdust can conceivably come from limbs pruned from fruit trees, so there can be a food link. If the rice is grown in conditions that are always wet, it may...
Sonsie Jamay
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For sure, sawdust can come with fruit trees and there can be a food link. There is a new process of growing rice now which is called the Madagascar method....
vishwanath s
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Greetings on World Toilet day, today Wednesday 17.November 2004. May we wish composting and eco-san a better future and a truly sustainable world in our times....
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vishwanath, I emailed my urine expert friend. She tells me that urine usually does not have a balanced NPK value unless someone has a diet unusually high in...
Sonsie Jamay
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Thanks a lot for the information.Yes indeed urine is very high in nitrogen but also does have a little bit of P and K Here is what I quote from Arno Rosemarin ...
vishwanath s
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Nov 22, 2004
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We mix ours in our sawdust toilet, and have no problem with "stink". That's what the sawdust is for. It composts very nicely. Steve Spence Dir., Green Trust ...
Steve Spence
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Dear FriendsI am k d singh researcher in INDIA and working on composting andvermicomposting aspects of human waste and problems associated withimplementation...
Kunwar Durg
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Dec 19, 2004
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I know you researchers don't like to hear this, but you don't need much money to try composting toilets. There are programs in India implementing drying and ...
Sonsie Jamay
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