Definitions
- Waterless Toilet- Consists of two or more 5-gallon buckets, sawdust or other organic material (lime or wood chips), and a toilet seat. Since it does not use water like the toilets that most of us know, they save clean water, a limited resource.
- Humanure- provides valuable source of nutrients needed for compost. It contains high levels of nitrogen and is easily collected using a waterless toilet.
- Compost- also called humus, an organic fertilizer which replenishes and improves the quality of soil. This type of fertilization is useful in areas where there is no money to spend on expensive fertilizers and pesticides. Organic farms or gardens can use this too in order to have a healthy growth of plants.
Abstract
Composting and fertilization are important steps to organic farming and gardens. In order to get the level of nitrogen needed, one may use a waterless toilet and add the product to their compost pile. The only problem that most people find with this method is smell, aesthetics, and general hygiene. In order to keep this under control, whenever you use the waterless toilet it is important to apply a covering of sawdust or other high-carbon material. This will help reduce the odor and also keep the waterless toilet and compost pile hygienic.
Social Context
In America people are less likely to use this method of conservation because of the extraordinary standard of living. This would be very useful in many parts of America, especially in Georgia where they have a water shortage. Droughts would not affect your area as much if everyone used this type of toilet because of all of the water saved from using the waterless toilet.
I feel that this is more likely to work in less developed countries. Some places are currently using latrines and other methods of waterless toilets, so they would gain from their wastes being used as compost material and enriching their soil.
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