"ken cohen" wrote in message
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On our allotment there is no functioning toilet, and my thoughts have
recently turned to the topic of composting human manure. I've been
checking out various things on the internet, and composting human
faeces seems to be fraught with all kinds of difficulties. But some
people are suggesting that it makes a lot of sense to focus more on
keeping urine separate from faeces, and using it as a rich
bacteria-free source of nitrogen, pottasium and phosphorus.

I don't know if it is bacteria-free at the moment you emit it, but it won't
be in that state for more than a minute or two.

You need
to dilute it with water (one suggestion was 1:8)

I use 1:10

before it is usable.
But is it then usable immediately?

Yes.

Anyone tried it?

Yes.

Isn't there
going to be a serious problem with smell?

While you are collecting and storing it, keep tyhe lid tightly on the
container. It acquires a very strong characteristic smell in a matter of a
few days. {:-((
The smell disappears within a few minutes after it is diluted and watered
into the soil.

Are there any legal issues
to be considered?

Don't know and don't care. It is unlikely that I will be caught in action.

Just remember that it is a very unbalanced feretiliser. Mostly nitrogen a
little phosphorus, very little ppotassium.
Its best use is probably as an accelerator in the compost heap.

Franz