[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Composting toilets URINE SEPARATION, REASON 3

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In a message dated 12/20/06 2:32:05 PM, molasses at speakeasy.net writes:


> So, if I'm understanding this correctly, this system really *won't* work in 
> a city (on a lot with a yard) because I think the
> city would get a bit PEEved (please excuse that one)  if everyone peed 
> outside all the time (especially if it always went to
> one spot - pew).  Not to mention I don't want the neighbors staring at my 
> bare bottom.
> 
OK, the third reason to separate urine from the solids (euphemism indeed) is 
it is more convenient to pee in various places.   I keep a couple of plastic 
jugs in a tray next to the bed.   I'm older and I urinate a couple of times a 
night.   I barely even wake up.   My wife uses a quart yoghourt container to 
pee in because it is easier for her to hit reliably than the opening of a gallon 
milk jug.   The jugs are convenient storage and the urine is better 
fertilizer if it ages a bit anyway.   (Less likely for the Nitrogen to leach from the 
soil.)   If you have no place to fertilize, then what's the point?   I'd agree 
with that.   I pee in a jug regardless of what kind of toilet we have because 
the urine is convenient fertilizer ready to use with a little dilution.   I've 
been known to walk between the rows of crops during a rain storm, a jug in 
either hand, fertilizing the crops as I go.   No worry about getting urine on 
crop leaves.   It washes off immediately.   No need to dilute.   Mom is doing 
that automatically.   No worry about observers.   All the sane people are 
indoors where it is dry and the (other) crazies don't care.   

Dan Hemenway




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