If it doesn't, then more cover is needed. Leave the buckets out in the sun to dry as this keeps them from holding onto the ammonia smell. This method works just fine for urine only. Actually, a 5 gallon bucked filled with sawdust sitting on top of another bucket with lid I understand makes a good urinal for the guys.
Shredded leaves or paper can work in place of sawdust too. The other half has used the kitchen compost bucket to pee. He actually claims it gets rid of the fruit flys. Adding some sawdust in takes care of the smell and soaks up the liquid.
Liquid gold can be added to the compost direct or from bottles but once I've put it in a bottle, it's usually easier to dilute and use around the plants as fertilizer.
I've had compost heat up in a trash bin after adding about 3 5 gallon buckets of smelly material but managing compost in a plastic bin is hard. We do better in an outdoor bin that is at least 3' on a side or a hardware wire circle. Here is a link that might be useful: Our bins.
I use a sawdust toilet, too, but in my case it's a shredded-junk-mail toilet. I keep the bucket outside my backdoor, out of sight of the neighbors, and I have to say, I love going outside in the mornings for a pee and watching the bees buzzing in the basil.
It's a nice way to start the day. Now, I just started doing this about a month ago, so I can't swear yet that it works, but I think it might. Then I started sitting I'm a girl on the edge of the raised bed at night when the neighbors presumably couldn't see , and peeing directly onto the lasagna.
Then because of something I read here, I got inspired to reduce my paper waste stream to as little as possible. At first I was just planning to save all our household's paper output until the summer, when I'd have enough nitrogen to balance the carbon in the paper. But then I realized that the urine might serve as a good accelerant for the decomp of the shredded paper. So after reading the appropriate chapters in the Humanure Handbook online, I started peeing in a five-gallon bucket of shredded paper see above for deets.
Last but not least, I ordered the Luggable Loo, which is a toilet seat that fits on the top of the bucket. So far I really like it. Now, it's not like I would ever confess this in public. Only my husband knows, and I'm guessing my housekeeper will eventually do the math, but so far I feel pretty good about it. Saves so much water, helps recycle paper hopefully , provides free nutrients for my plants. I collect it because the garden is a mile away from where I live and either add it to the compost pile or dilute it to , depending on how concentrated it is, what I'm watering, and how rainy it's been and water my vegetables.
The rule of thumb is to avoid using urine on plant parts that you're planning to eat in the next few weeks. So I water the artichokes, brassicas the 5-ft. First I asked him because he has to use a catheter to go anyway so he was already used to that concept. Then I figured, well if I'm gonna' ask him to do it I may as well give it a try and it was much easier than I thought. We save it in a large jar with a tight screw on lid that gets dumped daily. There is no odor from it except briefly while it's being dumped.
My compost pile is only a huge bed of leaves right now with a serious shortage of nitrogen-rich materials which is why this seemed like a good idea. I try to rotate dumping spots and have noticed the areas that receive more of the urine are breaking down much faster.
As for the container, I would use a bucket but we have a very tiny bathroom and it's not exactly discrete when we have company. At least with the jar we can tuck it away under the cabinet where it won't be seen. Toilet paper and all goes in the jar and gets poured into the compost pile so as not to waste any flushing water. Considering we were in a terrible drought this year I wish I had read up on this sooner because every little bit saved helps. Thankfully we live way out on private property so no one sees me when I take it out to deposit it.
I think I would have a very hard time explaining this practice to my friends and family so for now I'm too chicken to go bragging about it except on this forum lol.
Maybe I'll get my nerve up one day and convert them all!! You've reminded me about the paper - that doesn't go in the pee bucket here either because we have a wood stove. It goes in its own bucket and gets burned whenever the bucket's full. A lot of people with old septic systems do that around here. Collecting used toilet paper took more getting used to, psychologically, than collecting urine, as far as seeming unsanitary.
Just started to occasionally. Unfortunately the homes in our neighborhood are pretty close together and so there is no way to "hit the pile" directly.
In my attempt to restart an almost frozen pile, however, I have been collecting when I remember. Remember the best thing about fresh though, the temp is body and so should help to thaw, or keep the heat in a pile rather than cooling it off! My take on it is that if you can save water while you are doing it, its a good thing.
Saving water has been a big deal here in the Southeast recently, and will continue to be all over the world. You can also make your compost a little more "personal" which I like. There is a group that is dedicated to trying to get people to urinate outside--I will make an attempt at linking to it.
Here is a link that might be useful: peeoutside. Me- no. My husband in the summer, especially during a drought since we are on a well. I think this is a really fascinating subject, and would love to try it, but what is the impact on the compost from the pee of people who take prescription drugs, or any OTC drugs, for that matter? I mean, are birth control pills or such passed through into the urine and into the compost? I think it was Leno who said that if urine would actually work then every frat house in America would look like a tropical rain forest.
Excess drugs and vitamins do pass through; however, it would only be a fraction of what was actually in the pill, assuming your dosages are correct and your body is using most of it.
The excess drugs will be dilute, and will be broken down in the pile. The city offered to provide sewer The next day he added more septic capacity, but he kept thinking that that vacant field was a good place to get rid of excess "fluid" to prevent back-ups in the future, so he left the line out there. He eventually removed it; he said he realized one day in August that the health department couldn't help but notice the grass in that field. The following is intended to be a brief and non-exhaustive overview of health concerns and solutions, though we ask that people do their own research and draw their own conclusions.
Avoiding faecal contamination this is the most important element in the safe use of urine. While pee is almost always sterile, faeces contain dangerous pathogens.
Special toilets are available that will separate your urine and divert it into a holding tank, though a simple plastic jug probably works even better to avoid any chance of fecal contamination. You can also store urine in a sealed container for several months to minimise any potential pathogens. Note: faeces can be made safe for gardening through a specific composting process described in the Humanure Handbook for a free copy see humanurehandbook.
Avoiding illness If someone has a urinary tract infection, or is using medications, they should avoid using their urine in edible gardens. Though there are still advantages to using the urine on lawns or landscaping, so as to avoid the possibility of sending it to aquatic environments.
Individual use Urine is considered quite safe for individual use. Store the urine for 6 months in a sealed container before using it, and wait another month before eating the food crops as an added precaution.
Being extra safe and socially acceptable Where safety and social acceptability are concerns for the user, there are a variety of ways of cycling the nutrients from urine. For those who choose to fertilize fruit and vegetable gardens, most people would focus on fruit-bearing crops like tomatoes and cucumbers rather than peeing by the root vegetables. Keep in mind that urine is very high in nitrogen. Choose plants that need lots of nitrogen, such as corn and squash, tomatoes and cucumbers during their fruit-bearing stage, and older plants that need a boost.
Signs of nitrogen deficiency include yellow or pale green leaves, and some plants have key signs, like pointed cucumbers. Signs of excess nitrogen include curled leaves, and these plants may also attract aphids to the tender fast-growing leaves. For garden plants in need of a genuine nitrogen boost, once or twice a month is generally fine, though some people will add highly diluted pee a couple of times a week.
If you have more pee to give, try your lawn, trees and bushes. As a basic premise, the urine must be mixed with carbon-rich materials in order for the nitrogen to become accessible to the plants. Carbon-rich materials can include leaves, straw, or just good quality earthy soil.
The nitrogen in urine is in the form of urea, creatinine, and ammonia; when mixed with carbon-rich materials, the aerobic bacteria convert it into nitrates, which the plants can then uptake. Here are a few possible ways to use pee in your garden or landscaping. Please read the safety guidelines too. Recipe 1: Watered-down pee For soil with good drainage that is crumbly and earthy-smelling. Also works well for container gardens. Grab a reclaimed plastic container and take a pee.
Dilute it with eight to ten parts water, and apply it to the soil. Easy peesy. Working the urine into the soil or applying the urine under the top layer of soil would ensure that less nitrogen is lost due to conversion to ammonia gas, and the presence of soil organisms would help neutralise the rare chance of pathogens, though just pouring it on the soil works okay too.
After applying the pee, water the plant. Many gardening and composting sites recommend adding urine onto compost heap to help speed things up. With cold composting this provides the bacteria with a source of food which can be digested quickly producing heat rapidly. Although there can sometimes be small amounts of amino acids and other things like antibiotics if you are taking certain medications.
Urea is a source of food nitrogen for the bacteria, it is made up of lots of small molecules in a water solution — these properties allow urine be digested very quickly which means fast growth and heat. Almost all the advice regarding adding urine is for cold composting to provide a heat source and get the waste decomposing quicker.
Composting bacteria digest the sugars and carbohydrates leaving carbon dioxide and water.
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