Composting Liquid - A Compost Toilet Tip from Joe Jenkins 

how diluted do you use the urine? and how often?

@@SunFlower-it7lb - I like to keep things simple. SO, I can only say that pee on a water can of, maybe, 6 to 9 liters capacity. And the remaining filled with water. Work REALLY well. About the how often. I better say, whenever I can. Meaning it could be a whole lot more if I had more contributions! ;-) Either case the difference with or without added urine. Is rather amazing! Foliar growth and the deep green color says it all. The fact it's free and available is just contributing for the win win! ;-)

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The urine is collected with the other toilet material and composted. @@SunFlower-it7lb

Yes, it will compost.

Where are you located? Temperatures may drop in the winter depending on how often you're feeding the pile. It's unlikely that the rain is cooling it down. As long as it's not under water, it will be getting enough oxygen.

The soil microbes have very little to do with your poo and pee. Your waste poo has microbes in it and they will go to work on all the other grass, hay, food scraps and everything else you compost in your bin for the first year. Then you start the second bin for the next full year. By that time, the microbes and heat will have broken down everything in the first bin and you then use it as beautiful compost!

@@ArtOfHealth Thanks for the answer! I was a little unclear on at which point you need the soil life to have access to the material. But your point about a second bin makes a lot of sense.

@@hin_hale Thank you. I was glad I reached you. Keep up the good work.

No. You don't have to turn it.

You have nothing to worry about.

you'd need another 130 for it to catch. You're fine.

I'm sure the compost would love it.

Drink it! It is incredibly good. Trader Joe’s sells it. I mix 1 bottle of kombucha beer with 1 bottle of non alcoholic ginger beer and split it with my wife for a soft buzz. 3.2% alcohol.

About 40 inches.

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No. They love it.

@@jcjenkins01 hahaha well, at least we have something in common

"isn't it toxic for the microorganisms inside the compost pile? " NO! They party all night long! LOL 😂 Seriously part of the fermentation process. Produces heat, CO2 and alcohol. As the most basic sub products. It's their way of life! So to speak. ;-)

Don't fill it all the way before emptying it if it's too heavy when full.

@@jcjenkins01Thanks Joe. The challenge for me is to switch out the bucket I'm using BEFORE it's gotten to full. Like the helpful MAX line in my Instant Pot, I'm going to use a permanent marker to make a MAX line in my 5 gallon buckets.

Something tells me there's an interesting story behind this question. 😁

@@austin2842 Happy to report no disasters, but I get up on a stack of cinder blocks and temporarily put a light weight cinder block on one side of the pile for my foot. Once my feet are in position and the bucket handle is in one hand, then I have to get my other hand under the bottom of the bucket so I can control where to pour the contents. I've broken off part of the lip around the bottom of a bucket when I tried to tip the contents of a full bucket with my fingers just under that lip. Nope. Gotta get my whole hand UNDER the bucket in order to lift the bottom edge of the bucket to direct the contents right where it needs to go. Doing this work motivates me to keep doing my chin ups and push ups regularly! Of course, I only have to go through this process when the compost bin is getting around 3/4ths or more full. Generating humanure compost isn't for weaklings!

Mozambique Project: Consultant: Joe Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins, Inc., 143 Forest Lane, Grove City, PA 16127 USA • Ph: 814-786-9085; Email: joe@josephjenkins.com Client: Frisian Urban Sanitation Programme (FUSP), Xai-Xai Municipal Council, Xai-Xai, Mozambique Project Location: Xai Xai, Mozambique, the economic capital of the Province of Gaza, located in the southern end of Mozambique about 200 km north of the capital city, Maputo. Xai Xai is bordered on the north by the Limpopo River, and on the south by the Indian Ocean and is located at an elevation of approximately 10 meters along EN1, the main road from Maputo to Beira. The area of Xai Xai is approximately 135 km2 and it is divided into twelve administrative subdivisions known as Bairros. According to the 2007 census, Xai-Xai’s population was 104,689, or 22,950 households. Project Goals: The primary goal of this project is to collect toilet material and other organic materials and render them sanitized such that they can be returned to the soil as agricultural nutrients without negatively impacting the environment or undermining public health in any way. As this can be achieved by subjecting the organic materials to thermophilic composting, the challenge was to find a methodology that could achieve this goal. Summary: The composting of toilet liquid and market scraps in Xai Xai appears to be very feasible as long as a carbon-based material is available in large enough quantities to combine with the nitrogenous and wet input from the toilets. This project provides an excellent and very unique opportunity, a living laboratory, where liquid sewage can be recycled via composting. The data that can be gleaned from this project could be very valuable and have a world-wide impact. A sister sanitation project at the Tongaat Hulett sugar cane refinery could greatly enhance the quantity and quality of data collected. A parallel toilet system where the toilet contents are collected inside the toilet with bagasse and composted in bins adjacent to the toilet stalls could be established either at schools, homes, or at the sugar cane community, and the two systems (pump truck and direct compost) compared side-by-side for an even more enriching project.

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Compost is compost. It should all be together.

Find the source and eliminate it. Swap out your toilet receptacle. Use correct cover material in adequate quantities. What kind of flies? Geographical location?

@@jcjenkins01 bigger black flies, I'm using saw dust, I emptied the bucket n washed it. Put in a dry bucket a few inches of saw dust. There is no smell ever!

@@jcjenkins01 location is my 2nd floor bathroom in Pennsylvania lol

@@NoName-pu5ls doesn't sound like they're coming from your loo. Maybe house flies.

@@NoName-pu5ls do you have sheep round your house?