I am sorry to have to get back to this once again.

Composting “poo” or anything else (the expression is: “anything else ”)
is not a matter of believes. Where it is a matter of opinion, you should
give as much background as possible about how you arrive at your
opinion.

If this leads to a cascade of “I believe because it is my opinion
because the other guy's opinion was ...” than think again.

Those who live in France have the advantage that hands-on training is
possible with some associations and the « bureaux d'étude » who prepare
for you the project of domestic wetparks and other ways to clean your
waste-water, can talk about compost toilets.

About all associations who deal « agro-écologie » will have an “opinion”
and oftentimes experience to share.

Michael

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:46:27 +0100,
Michael Uplawski wrote:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:22:19 -0000 (UTC),
User ] wrote:
Is it OK to put vegetarian human poo in the veg plot?

No. Vegetarian or not is not the question.

Or in the compost heap?

Yes.

The compost toilet system works in one way or other, but in the end, you
compost the mixture of sawdust, leafs, « BRF » or whatever dry material
ou have and “the rest” for a considerably long time before use as
compost.

As long as “official” surveys are lacking, the opinions are devided.
Some use this compost on trees only, most do not care. Some choose
certain vegetables (beans, field been, tomato etc...).

Some of the rules, that I follow personally:

- - Never mix types of comost. Applies also to “turbo-compost”, made with
dung and “activated” straw

- - Cover the compost during the first year, in which it is collected at a
spot which should be inaccessible to animals. There is no need to add
water and the chemical balance is pratically always ideal.

- - Turn and separate the compost after the first year. We use dry leafs
in the toilet because they compost better than sawdust. After one
year, you do no longer recognize the “origin” of the material 20cm
below the surface.

- - Leave it for another year covered with straw or other dry material,
but exposed to the weather.

- - From there on, do as you please. But the compost is still only between
1 and 2 years old which does not qualify it for general use. It is
probably best with tomatos, cucurbitacea or must be mixed with the
actual soil of the garden.

- - People who consume important amounts of pharmaceutics cannot use
this toilet and must go somewhere else. - We have never encountered
somebody to whom this applied. The importance of realistic quantities
is always overrated.

The brochure that is given out by french associations who promote these
toilet-systems talk about 100 l of drinking water being saved each day
and of 400 l which are not polluted from 1 water-closet and thus more
easily cleaned, if it is used by a family with two children.

I do not know the volumes, but we are only two. In my home I can no
longer condone polluting drinking water the way that most people do
without reflection. Composting is just the next logical step.

Shoot at will.

Michael

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