"Gello" wrote in message
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Feces contain plenty of pathogens even in healthy people so applying it
to
your soil is a definite health risk -

Even if it is composted and aged for several years?

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Gello



It's the composting step that is hazardous and smelly, unless you do it in a
closed container, in which case you have just invented a form of sewerage
works.

There are many such alternatives on the domestic scale these days. Have you
looked at composting toilets? Here (Australia) such things are available
commercially, as are the plans, and they may be acceptable to your local
authorities. We are on 50 acres and the neigbours are a long way off so we
looked into these but decided that this method wasn't for us because:
- you have to add plant material, eg sawdust after each deposit as the doins
are not balanced enough to get the right bacteria going alone
- there is inevitably some smell
- you have to empty it out manually to use the results on the garden and
even if the bulk of material is well composted you will need a strong
stomach for this.

We settled on an aerated waste treatment system that puts most of the
nutrients into the soil after it is rendered harmless.

David