THAT’S WHERE WE MAKE OUR BROTHER-IN LAW GO WHEN HE COMES TO VISIT BECAUSE HE’S SO FULL OF IT !!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S THE MOST HE WILL EVER DO FOR THIS PLANET !!!!!!
THANK YOU Charles!!! Love seeing you use this method!!! You have been the most transparent of anyone on Utube concerning this system, I have great respect for you and you have once again raised the bar!!! 👍 👍👍❤️
@@CharlesDowding1nodig it’s certainly a good idea for disposing of raw sewerage, I’d be concerned about the ammonia from urine, I’d be a little concerned, but looks fathomable
@@TransdermalCelebrate I’ve seen people use the buckets in their home & not separate the urine. They put one scoop sawdust or animal bedding for covering urine and 2 scoops for poo. When the bucket is mostly full, they have a compost pile just for the toilet dumps. After filling for 1 year,they date that pile and wait another year before using, while filling the next pile. They keep clean, bleached buckets in waiting for next use. They say with a toilet lid, there’s practically no smell, especially if you use the vent fan while going. The bedding soaking up urine keeps it from smelling. I’ve not experienced this, just seen some videos on it
Sir Charles I love your place ♥️👩🌾👍 wish I can get a glimpse of all the beautiful things you have and will be sharing with us ♥️👩🌾👍 thanks a bunch ♥️👍
It's such an amazing yet underappreciated "resource". I think I'd dig it into the soil instead of putting it on top though, just to be safe from e.coli and friends. And never where vegetables are grown, of course. There's a lot of useful information about humanure (solids and urine) to be found on SSWM (Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management), for anyone interested.
Hey this is really great to see! Love to learn more about using such. I live in Florida and thinking of making a severe weather shelter, thinking of having composting toilet for it. I could make regular use of the toilet as a gardening resource.
We just had our septic tank pumped and it had been a while since the last time so there were loads of solids that the pumping process couldn't remove. We are contemplating using a backhoe to clean out the remaining solids - you have me wondering now if I should attempt to compost those, or perhaps it would be too much at one time to attempt.
Nice! We actually bought a composting toilet for when someone was going to live in a trailer on our property, but it never happened. Now Im thinking of a yard restroom! 🤔🤔🤔
To get the smell down even more you could plumb a ventilation shaft so there’s always a draft coming into the seat area and exiting in the roof somewhere :-)
Hello Sir, if you need an idea for a new video, I would LOVE to know how you get the solids out of the assumed bucket to your garden area. My house hasn’t sold yet, but eventually I need to build one of these when I finally get to my new location.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Unless one lives 2 miles away from the nearest neighbor it is impossible not to be fined & ultimately kicked out of the neighborhood. Very strict zoning laws. I'm in a semi rural suburban area in NY.
When we became "civilized" we lost touch with nature. lol. Go figure. My neighbors would probably call the poop police and never asked me for a tomato. Great set up you have.
Best practices are to use a composting method that fully decomposes the waste. we have used a sawdust toilet composting system via the "Humanure Handbook" for more than 20 years. . Our composting system allows more than 2 years working/resting. it becomes forest soil. fresh chicken manure is far more dangerous
Exactly....but I saw a BBC program " called the Edwardian Farm"....and the Lu was right beside the pig barn and drained into the pig poo....the Asians seem to do this also....me I won't....do this method....I have lots of horses and chicken manure well rotted down for like 4 to 5 years....black gold I call it....oh and I don't and would not use PIGGY stuff either....cow and sheep manure is really nice....when rotted down....
@Donna Richardson the general consensus I've seen is to use humanure on fruiting trees and bushes, rather than on things you directly eat like leafy greens
We always use lime at our cabin and nobody has ever cleaned it out, all the while spending thousands of dollars on chemical fertilizers for their foot plots for the animals 😩 Definitely will be proposing some new ideas to the guys next meeting.
Why is there light in this year's poop pile? Is it exposed to the elements? Don't you have critters seeking shelter? I imagine the combination of greens (poop) and browns (sawdust) would generate some heat... I was thinking that if you don't have access to sawdust, you could just fill a bucket with soil from your property, and use that instead of sawdust, it would make a good enough brown.
Am besten verwended man diese ganzen Pharmazeutika nicht. Außerdem ist es zumindest hier in Deutschland nicht erlaubt, diesen Kompost für Lebensmittel zu verwenden. Er muss 3 Jahre alt es sein, bevor man ihn, zum Beispiel unter Bäume ausbringen darf.
if urine is strong enough to harm any soil life... it is only in that spot, for a short span of time. a common example is dog pee burn spots on lawns. . this happens because there is not enough carbon to balance the nitrogen.
Poo is poo… we are no different from any living species on this planet. Us humans what to think that we are separate and individual… the process follows the same method of breaking down the elements! It would be great if humans was more organic with our daily intake as it would make a better product at the end! When you think about it… everything is just a cycle in life! Amazing !
Yes and no. Whilst in essence manure is manure the composting process doesn't break down everything. This means that pharmaceuticals consumed don't always break down, this is a huge issue with sewage plants too because the aquatic life appears to be affected by things such as antidepressants (1). Then there is the issue of pathogens, some bacteria for example can encapsulate themselves and survive very high heat (bacillus cereus being an example); this then means you could be exposing yourself to a higher pathogenload down the line. Not all pathogens that affect animals also harm humans, but human pathogens certainly do affect humans. So whilst i agree with you that poo is poo; most humans are so unhealthily medicated that their poo also isn't very healthy either. (1)Antidepressants in waterways may make crayfish bolder, increasing risk of predation
@@dodopson3211 - bacillus cereus is already widely spread in nature, and can become pathogenic only when food is improperly cooked and/or stored: www.nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Preventing-Foodborne-Illness-Bacillus-cereus.pdf - so it's not something restricted to composting toilets which, if handled correctly, can be quite safe. As for the antidepressants reaching the waterways, an argument can be made that that specific pee *needs* to be collected and stored and given a chance to fully decompose, instead of being dumped fresh into the water.
Oh no. You don't put that on food do you? I wouldn't want to eat what comes out of most people! Sure it's composted, but are pharmaceuticals totally degraded for example?
You obviously don't know where your poop goes.... should I tell you?!........ Stores! Supermarkets... yup... it's in all the food you're consuming... and be sure they don't care you've taken medicine or not.... Your welcome:) Buon appetito!
@@nataliebutler Hi Natalie - it’s my understanding that pharmaceuticals end up in our water supply by way of urination and our septic systems, so there’s really no way to escape it sadly. If I’m wrong however, please someone let me know!
From quran Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked The name of other than Allah;(691) that which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form);(692) that which is sacrificed(693) on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division(694) (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion:(695) yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion(696) for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful
These smell. It doesn't matter how much sawdust, etc you use. Anyone who has used a compost toilet camping or in remote areas without access to plumbing understands this. You also cannot put any toilet paper down there which creates the need for a garbage to collect paper, which then generates its own smells and has to be disposed of separately.
Improperly maintained ones smell, but that doesn't mean they all do. I'd have thought the same as you if I'd only ever used latrines at campgrounds (which aren't the same as a composting toilet). I've used many composting toilets and properly maintained ones don't smell. And I've never seen one where people didn't put paper in it. Good on you Charles for respecting the nutrient cycle, keeping water clean and turning "waste" into soil fertility!
The people around here that I know that use them don't separate.... not enough liquid stops it from composting because it dries out, add water and it will go away. They used buckets inside, and cap until they had 6 buckets, then put them into a special compost bay outside so they would have enough to create a layer across the whole thing. They based their process off the instructions in the book called Humanure.
I'd take those smells over bleach and chemical-y air freshener any day! One could always use the resulting compost to grow some lovely, fragrant flowers just outside the composting toilet!
THAT’S WHERE WE MAKE OUR BROTHER-IN LAW GO WHEN HE COMES TO VISIT BECAUSE HE’S SO FULL OF IT !!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S THE MOST HE WILL EVER DO FOR THIS PLANET !!!!!!
You guys!
Reminds me of a comment, someone posted on Facebook,
"Ordered my 5 tonne of manure coming on Sunday got brother in law to help shit it"
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THANK YOU Charles!!!
Love seeing you use this method!!!
You have been the most transparent of anyone on Utube concerning this system, I have great respect for you and you have once again raised the bar!!! 👍 👍👍❤️
I appreciate that!
Ahhh! Just realise you’ve got some ventilation organised! Great video thanks
Yes! Thank you!
I just love that RAW footage Charles. It’s a breath of fresh air! 😅
😂!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig it’s certainly a good idea for disposing of raw sewerage, I’d be concerned about the ammonia from urine,
I’d be a little concerned, but looks fathomable
@@TransdermalCelebrate I’ve seen people use the buckets in their home & not separate the urine. They put one scoop sawdust or animal bedding for covering urine and 2 scoops for poo. When the bucket is mostly full, they have a compost pile just for the toilet dumps. After filling for 1 year,they date that pile and wait another year before using, while filling the next pile. They keep clean, bleached buckets in waiting for next use. They say with a toilet lid, there’s practically no smell, especially if you use the vent fan while going. The bedding soaking up urine keeps it from smelling. I’ve not experienced this, just seen some videos on it
@@jenbear8652 ok that’s not my post,
Poop is perfectly fine,
Urine on the other hand has a high amount of ammonia
@@jenbear8652 that’s actually a valid point, but don’t hack my link
Thank you for this clear instruction. Something to plan for. I've seen videos of this process done in Africa for gardening.
In Africa they also have higher rates of typhoid fever and other diseases that are transmitted by fecal contamination
That's for different reasons. Not because of composting.
Sir Charles I love your place ♥️👩🌾👍 wish I can get a glimpse of all the beautiful things you have and will be sharing with us ♥️👩🌾👍 thanks a bunch ♥️👍
So nice of you Emy, thanks 💚
It's such an amazing yet underappreciated "resource". I think I'd dig it into the soil instead of putting it on top though, just to be safe from e.coli and friends. And never where vegetables are grown, of course.
There's a lot of useful information about humanure (solids and urine) to be found on SSWM (Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management), for anyone interested.
Thanks!
Hey this is really great to see! Love to learn more about using such. I live in Florida and thinking of making a severe weather shelter, thinking of having composting toilet for it. I could make regular use of the toilet as a gardening resource.
🙂 perfect
We just had our septic tank pumped and it had been a while since the last time so there were loads of solids that the pumping process couldn't remove. We are contemplating using a backhoe to clean out the remaining solids - you have me wondering now if I should attempt to compost those, or perhaps it would be too much at one time to attempt.
I absolutely would compost them with plenty (say 80%) of straw or fibre of any kind to hold air in what is currently anaerobic sludge
I love that Charles Dowding gives accurate information instead of untrue rumors that have been floating around for years.
Many thanks 💚
Iove that idea
Nice! We actually bought a composting toilet for when someone was going to live in a trailer on our property, but it never happened. Now Im thinking of a yard restroom! 🤔🤔🤔
Sounds great!
Would this compost aswell if it was in a container like an ibc or similar?
I reckon it would be a lot more smelly! There's quite a bit of air in, even though that space
To get the smell down even more you could plumb a ventilation shaft so there’s always a draft coming into the seat area and exiting in the roof somewhere :-)
Yes exactly, each seat has one such pipe
Brilliant!
My friend has a compost toilet, I’ve not used it yet.🤣👍🏻🤠
Amazing! Thanks for sharing! 🤠
Hello Sir, if you need an idea for a new video, I would LOVE to know how you get the solids out of the assumed bucket to your garden area. My house hasn’t sold yet, but eventually I need to build one of these when I finally get to my new location.
Noted Sally but it's a once yearly emptying of the whole bay, after a year of no new additions. At Christmas time. Using wheelbarrow.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig How do you keep that collection from smelling. Local town officials will get wind of it. No pun intended.
@@seagreenblue4052 haha and empty the urine straw monthly, and add wood shavings etc after every poo visit
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Unless one lives 2 miles away from the nearest neighbor it is impossible not to be fined & ultimately kicked out of the neighborhood. Very strict zoning laws. I'm in a semi rural suburban area in NY.
When we became "civilized" we lost touch with nature. lol. Go figure. My neighbors would probably call the poop police and never asked me for a tomato. Great set up you have.
😂😂😂
I’ve brought this up a few times… not sure my wife will ever be down
You could use it!. My family are not so keen (:
Nice shed. I pee on a bale of hay in the garden
I'm eating Charles 😅. I love a compost loo mind.
😂
I was under the impression that human and dog/cat poop were no-no's for the garden.
Best practices are to use a composting method that fully decomposes the waste.
we have used a sawdust toilet composting system via the "Humanure Handbook" for more than 20 years.
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Our composting system allows more than 2 years working/resting.
it becomes forest soil.
fresh chicken manure is far more dangerous
@@stephenrobb8759 🐐
Exactly....but I saw a BBC program " called the Edwardian Farm"....and the Lu was right beside the pig barn and drained into the pig poo....the Asians seem to do this also....me I won't....do this method....I have lots of horses and chicken manure well rotted down for like 4 to 5 years....black gold I call it....oh and I don't and would not use PIGGY stuff either....cow and sheep manure is really nice....when rotted down....
@Donna Richardson the general consensus I've seen is to use humanure on fruiting trees and bushes, rather than on things you directly eat like leafy greens
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First time I have ever questioned Charles’ methods… Guess I’m too much of a city girl who loves the country with the exception of the outhouse. 🤮
Okay 😮
We always use lime at our cabin and nobody has ever cleaned it out, all the while spending thousands of dollars on chemical fertilizers for their foot plots for the animals 😩 Definitely will be proposing some new ideas to the guys next meeting.
Good plan!
Why is there light in this year's poop pile? Is it exposed to the elements? Don't you have critters seeking shelter? I imagine the combination of greens (poop) and browns (sawdust) would generate some heat...
I was thinking that if you don't have access to sawdust, you could just fill a bucket with soil from your property, and use that instead of sawdust, it would make a good enough brown.
Good ideas and there is light because it's wire netting, nothing breaks in!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig - maybe you can make a longer video, showing the wire netting and all the details?
So, you are able to use human waste for fertilizer?
For sure Marge - see the video about to appear and here is a link specially for you ruclips.net/video/IwvEVtne27Y/видео.html
WE HAVE A SIMILAR SETUP CALLED COMPOST LARRY !!!!!!!!!!
The Things that Gardeners do😂
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First time I have ever questioned Charles’ methods… Guess I’m too much of a city girl who loves the country with the exception of the outhouse. 🤮
😪!
thats enough internet for today
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It’s for the flower beds people. Relax. 😂
*THERE NEEDS TO BE A WARNING ON THIS VIDEO!*
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@@CharlesDowding1nodig I was very engaged until the literal shit was shown. Couldn't even finish the video.
I cant get past the thought if all the pharma in that poo...yuk. Fine for non edible but cant persuade myself to have it on the food side.
Am besten verwended man diese ganzen Pharmazeutika nicht. Außerdem ist es zumindest hier in Deutschland nicht erlaubt, diesen Kompost für Lebensmittel zu verwenden. Er muss 3 Jahre alt es sein, bevor man ihn, zum Beispiel unter Bäume ausbringen darf.
Шок! Жесть! Смотреть до конца!
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@@CharlesDowding1nodig а где сердечко?!❤
Wouldn't pee kill mycelia?
I don't know, but we compost the urine hay first
if urine is strong enough to harm any soil life... it is only in that spot, for a short span of time.
a common example is dog pee burn spots on lawns.
.
this happens because there is not enough carbon to balance the nitrogen.
Soft? It looked as hard as cement.
It’s freezing where he’s at. You can tell by the frozen leaves laying on the ground :)
Poo is poo… we are no different from any living species on this planet. Us humans what to think that we are separate and individual… the process follows the same method of breaking down the elements! It would be great if humans was more organic with our daily intake as it would make a better product at the end!
When you think about it… everything is just a cycle in life!
Amazing !
Well said 🌱
Yes and no.
Whilst in essence manure is manure the composting process doesn't break down everything.
This means that pharmaceuticals consumed don't always break down, this is a huge issue with sewage plants too because the aquatic life appears to be affected by things such as antidepressants (1).
Then there is the issue of pathogens, some bacteria for example can encapsulate themselves and survive very high heat (bacillus cereus being an example); this then means you could be exposing yourself to a higher pathogenload down the line. Not all pathogens that affect animals also harm humans, but human pathogens certainly do affect humans.
So whilst i agree with you that poo is poo; most humans are so unhealthily medicated that their poo also isn't very healthy either.
(1)Antidepressants in waterways may make crayfish bolder, increasing risk of predation
@@dodopson3211 - bacillus cereus is already widely spread in nature, and can become pathogenic only when food is improperly cooked and/or stored: www.nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/Preventing-Foodborne-Illness-Bacillus-cereus.pdf - so it's not something restricted to composting toilets which, if handled correctly, can be quite safe.
As for the antidepressants reaching the waterways, an argument can be made that that specific pee *needs* to be collected and stored and given a chance to fully decompose, instead of being dumped fresh into the water.
Great way to recycle your nutrients!
Last years poo 😅
Isn't that what they also call our current UK PM?
@@uk7866 No no, last years poo is actually useful
@@Lifegrowsonandon I stand corrected 😪
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I thought I was on the wrong channel with thumbnail picture..😂
I agree! I cannot choose it, RUclips select thumbnails for shorts
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I thought human waste cannot be used as composte...
Maybe depends on the humans, and what else is put in there!
That's great! Not legal here tho.
Wow. It's common sense 😂
Not legal for commercial gardening, or what you grow in your own backyard?
@@doinacampean9132 the potties are not legal! But I don't see one!?!?!
Oh no. You don't put that on food do you? I wouldn't want to eat what comes out of most people! Sure it's composted, but are pharmaceuticals totally degraded for example?
You obviously don't know where your poop goes.... should I tell you?!........
Stores! Supermarkets... yup... it's in all the food you're consuming... and be sure they don't care you've taken medicine or not....
Your welcome:)
Buon appetito!
@@tesseract5082 In the UK, human sewerage is spread on farms?
@@nataliebutler Hi Natalie - it’s my understanding that pharmaceuticals end up in our water supply by way of urination and our septic systems, so there’s really no way to escape it sadly. If I’m wrong however, please someone let me know!
He puts it on the flower beds only
In the UK, all sewage farms have been ordered to release into the rivers & the sea.
No, I'm good. I'd stick with cow and horse manure.
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welcome to the USSR
Ahhh!
no no I can't eat my own poop
Ooo ooo no I could not spread my own shit on my garden. I just couldnt
I agree. I could probably spread someone else’s shit all over my garden though that would be fine. But yeah definitely not my own.
@@musomaster9027 I could no spread human shit on my garden. Mental block for me.
@@chrisgartenn absolutely
Why would you think someone else's shit would be better?
From quran
Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked The name of other than Allah;(691) that which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form);(692) that which is sacrificed(693) on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division(694) (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety. This day have those who reject faith given up all hope of your religion:(695) yet fear them not but fear Me. This day have I perfected your religion(696) for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. But if any is forced by hunger, with no inclination to transgression, Allah is indeed Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful
@@chrisgartenn what
Can only eat living meat?
@@s-c.. where does it say
Well, the quote doesn't mention poo... but eating 'living' meat doesn't appeal to me either.
@@aamirwaheed3478 first line - “forbidden…: dead meat”. Just goes to show how much religion is open to interpretation. Not specifically Islam.
These smell. It doesn't matter how much sawdust, etc you use. Anyone who has used a compost toilet camping or in remote areas without access to plumbing understands this. You also cannot put any toilet paper down there which creates the need for a garbage to collect paper, which then generates its own smells and has to be disposed of separately.
Improperly maintained ones smell, but that doesn't mean they all do. I'd have thought the same as you if I'd only ever used latrines at campgrounds (which aren't the same as a composting toilet). I've used many composting toilets and properly maintained ones don't smell. And I've never seen one where people didn't put paper in it.
Good on you Charles for respecting the nutrient cycle, keeping water clean and turning "waste" into soil fertility!
The people around here that I know that use them don't separate.... not enough liquid stops it from composting because it dries out, add water and it will go away. They used buckets inside, and cap until they had 6 buckets, then put them into a special compost bay outside so they would have enough to create a layer across the whole thing. They based their process off the instructions in the book called Humanure.
Thanks Heather.
Sometimes this one smells a little, like any farmyard! Natural smells.
I'd take those smells over bleach and chemical-y air freshener any day! One could always use the resulting compost to grow some lovely, fragrant flowers just outside the composting toilet!
well, that's just not how it is....
20 plus years of composting toilet on our homestead.
if there is any bad odor it needs more carbon material .
We are not pigs Charles !