songbird writes:

if you live in the city, that is different
but it isn't impossible. change the toilets
to be composting buckets, have the person
move the bucket when needed to a collection
point, pay someone to take those buckets to
a composting site and rinse them out, return
them with the next round of picking up the
next lot. about the same start up costs
(buckets and different designed toilet) other
than needing materials (shredded paper, sawdust,
leaves, bark, etc. still all work).

Holy c**p.

You write like you've never been to a city.
Just one of those 30 story high rises would produce
so many buckets of crap, you might die in the lobby
from the smell. When you have mile after mile of people
living right on top of each other, emptying those buckets
would be something to see. Smelling it? No thanks.

Ever walk in Manhattan? The sidewalks regularly fill up
with people and you're forced to walk in the street too.
That's without brigades of people carrying buckets.

when the power goes out and stays out for
a few weeks in a large city then what?

Power out in a city for few weeks?
Say what?

The bottom line is, if you live in civilization
you get the benefits of civilization.
You build a sewage treatment system and the poop
gets taken care of.

Basically the same thing as composting
but on a different scale.

--
Dan Espen