It's hard to get people to try new things. Especailly things that involve doo doo, but they walk around with a pooper scooper for the dog and use portajohns at carnivals just fine, YUCK!
Well something on my to do list is a composwt toilet of types also. This is the really cheap version and requires just a tad more work.
First you build a nice place to sit like a bench seat with a hole in it, place 5 gallon bucket under hole, take the little feet off the toilet seat so it sits flat and not the normal gaps. Sprinkle a little sawdust into the bucket so "stuff" does not stick to bottom of bucket. Now when you need to go you go as normal. Instead of flushing it you springkle sawdust over it. Saw dust prevents smells and keeps out the flies etc.. so just cover the mess. Use till as full as you want to carry, then carry it outside and dump into a compost pile and cover with leaves and/or grass clippings.
Rinse bucket if needed. Let compost sit 1 full year or more. Each time you empty the bucket dump it into the middle of the pile and cover. Dry leaves work great.
Animals do NOT get into it, it does NOT smell, it IS sanitary. Using loose covering of leaves and grass clippings the pile does NOT need turned to be airiated.
It is best to have 2 or 3 piles going at once. 1 you use for dumping for six months and then forget for a year, the second you start after six months and use for six months then let sit a year. the 3rd you start after a year, use six months, forget for a year. Rotate the piles. I colder climates you may want to let them sit 18 months for composting.
Composting builds heat in the pile and that heat is high enough to kill the pathogens and such that everyone is so paraniod about. The leaf covering as you are building the pile is loose enough it traps air so no turning is needed. There is enough moisture in the bucket from pee and such the pile does not dry out. You don't want it to dry out, you want it to compost!
There is really no difference from this compost and kitchen waste compost after composting and it is the best fertilizer you can get, although I still think I would not use it for growing food. One of those parts that I still get yecky about, but great for flowers and trees and really no reason than the thoughts about it as to why I would not use it for food.
I knew people doing this and it works as stated, they used it for growing food plants also and never made them sick. I also read a large artical awhile back written by someone doing it as discribed and they said they had done it about 30 years I think and they have the best tomatoes around. Said everyone loves the tomatoes untill they are told about the composting, then they shy away sometimes, but knowone ever got sick eating them.
Couse this takes a bit of room, not much, not really for city people or apartment dwellers, but those living in the country with a little space it works great. How much space depends on size of family and normal usage, but it is little space.
