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Humanure Compost Toilets at a Music Festival

April 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pm (compost loo videos)

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4 Comments

  1. josé miguel said,

    September 7, 2009 at 3:54 am

    Nice video guys!

    hello,it is first time i find this blog and it is really good! im portuguese and
    since 2006 i start to build some compost toilets, first with qfriends, then with a carpenter, then by my own or with a helper, also facilitating workshops about how to build compost toilets. i had already build a couple of them, and also worked for festivals with compost toilet, 1st time in 2007 making a demonstration in Andanças and then in BoomFestival and Sinergia Summer Camp2009, in Portugal.

    the guys from the video they are doing a great work, specially because they got it on tap, and now-a-days this kind of videos are very important to help to achive objectives of the people that works with compost humanure proposes to.

    i just have pictures of my works and i dont have blog. i might creat one soon. well, i could talk a lot about this by experience i have, anyway i couldnt do the sign in because im not very good with computer programming stuff, i would love to, sorry.

    where are you from?
    thanks for this blog

  2. admin said,

    September 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    hi
    we are british, but have farm near tabua. if you wanted to submit some stuff for publishing here, great, send it to abelhas@gmail.com

  3. GeaVox said,

    November 30, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    I first used a composting toilet in Switzerland, back in the 1970s, on a small music festival site, somewhere near Basel. Back then it was viewed as a whacky, hippie thing to do.

    Those first prototypes used soil – which I suppose is a little bit wasteful – but they didn’t smell at all. Apparently they had been supplied by the land owner on whose farm we were camping, as well as having a herd of dairy cows, he was also a commercial flower grower.

    The toilets were just a long bench with holes and toilet seats nailed to them divided into 4 cubicles using wooden partitions and an enclosure.

    Under the toilet seat there was a bucket and on the floor another one, full of very dry soil, with a scoop, like the ones you get in wholefood stores. Inside the cubicle there were signs in lots of languages told us to dump a scoopful of soil before leaving. The toilet paper was made of recycled paper, the first example of recycle paper I recall ever seeing, and it looked ‘wholemeal’ LOL!

    Nice to know the idea’s developed and evolved, the day we stop dumping sewage in the sea and start using it as fertiliser is the day we can reasonably start calling ourselves truly ‘civilised’ :o D.

    great work guys!
    ; he had a team pf farm hands who collected the dumped the stuff in a large container, where it could continue to mature until it was harmless enough to use on the land. I doubt he was doing it for environmental reasons, but it was incredibly quick, there was no smell and the people who changed the buckets didn’t seem to mind removing them, popping them on a cart and emptying them in the receptacle. Apparently it took about 6 months to produce an incredibly rich fertiliser that the landowner spread on his flwer beds.

  4. Julie Sharon said,

    January 20, 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Great video! We’re hoping to build a compost loo complex as part of our shift into permaculture. This website is a terrific resource and great inspiration.

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