Humanure Dry Toilet Made From a Milk Crate

...er for plants. The ubiquitous five gallon bucket is the most commonly used humanure receptacle. Most humanure toilet designs I’ve seen such as the ones on Joseph Jenkin’s website make use of wood which I’m not crazy about in the wet environment of a bathroom. Even with a coat of paint wood gets grungy. Alternatively, you can buy plastic camping toilet seats that will clamp on to a five gallon bucket but they have, in my opinion, an unacceptable wo...

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Making It

...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Lady Urine, Water Conservation and Halfway Humanure

...post human waste , but you do have to be careful, and you need a dedicated humanure pile–more than one, really. More like three. We just don’t have room for that right now. But there’s a compromise solution. I call it Halfway Humanure. It’s easy to institute a urine-only dry toilet in your home or yard. Our milk crate toilet. That means you get yourself a five gallon bucket and one of those camping toilet seats which snaps onto a five gallon bucke...

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