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  • Опубліковано 20 бер 2017
  • In this film we take a tour of Greg and Lisa's composting toilet setup and see how they've been safely composting and using their humanure on their veggie garden for over four years.
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  • @markcharkey118
    @markcharkey118 7 років тому +176

    Been using Joe Jenkins style composting toilet last 5 years. Zero water, zero energy, so easy and builds soil, just do it!

    • @rolfpoelman3486
      @rolfpoelman3486 3 роки тому

      What happens to it after the bucket stage?

    • @nguyenlanh1395
      @nguyenlanh1395 2 роки тому

      Hard to start

    • @bryanbradley6871
      @bryanbradley6871 Рік тому

      Just throw your poo on top and mix it in the dirt (you can boil it before hand if you are worried)

    • @gavingreer
      @gavingreer 8 місяців тому

      what do ya use to wipe?

    • @markcharkey118
      @markcharkey118 8 місяців тому +3

      Just use regular toilet paper. Full buckets are dumped in outside compost bin, bucket wash water into compost bin. Fill bin up then cap and age one year. Bin is now compost. Get the humanure handbook for all the details.

  • @stmnMcdn
    @stmnMcdn 7 років тому +78

    lolololol this dude is funny and down to earth! "you're welcome to leave a deposit before you leave"

  • @FranekCyganek25
    @FranekCyganek25 2 роки тому +5

    When I say that God with His grace can heal through nature and act through infinite number of things, even believers in God often knock on the head and telk me that I am mentally ill or something. And I've just been in bad condition but it keeps getting all the way better. Certainly there are many graces of God in action for matters which are missing in the world and about which people think that they are not working but work wonderfully. I hope that it will gradually change and people will be able to take advantage of the good that is contained in this matter and also be able to discover many other wonders so far hidden for humanity or old and forgotten or considered not working but works great.
    Cordial greetings and blessing for You everyone ❤

  • @adamcarroll1975
    @adamcarroll1975 5 років тому +105

    Yeah, I feel bad every time I shit in clean water and then flush it, knowing there are water shortages and people dying due to lack of clean H2O. This is inspiring. Thank you!!!

    • @rolfpoelman3486
      @rolfpoelman3486 3 роки тому

      What do do with your urine?

    • @aurelia4297
      @aurelia4297 3 роки тому +3

      @@rolfpoelman3486 just dilute urine with a bit of water and give it to ur plants directly....its almost the same as miracle grow...

    • @IRGhost0
      @IRGhost0 3 роки тому +2

      there are water shortages because of overpopulation, so people dying is a necessity for ecological balance. there will be a point in the future where many more will die, which is necessary and natural.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 3 роки тому +1

      Oh yeah cuz if u dont use water in England it will magically teleport in Africa, right? Fokken hippies

    • @aurelia4297
      @aurelia4297 3 роки тому +3

      @@freedomordeath89 you're dumb....it takes so much energy to turn waste water into renewed clean water(your waste water gets sent to the waste water treatment center and is treated usually with bacteria that eats the dirt etc and the treatment center use coal as power)....save water if you can! contaminated water also ruins habitats...open your mindset and be less selfish

  • @FranekCyganek25
    @FranekCyganek25 2 роки тому +23

    I got to say that's not only humanure for me Since I started doing it, my physical, mental and spiritual health inproved a lot. I recovered from a very hard and difficult to cure disease. Because of this, I could start doing in my life and invent many new things that I could not before due to poor health and poor general condition. Beacause of this, I was able to start working a lot physically and intellectually. I also feel better spritually- happier and freer to do good and generally as me and I can also give this happiness to others. The very sad thing is that people do not want to see that the changes that have taken place are the results of working towards humanure.

    • @TheGeenat
      @TheGeenat 3 місяці тому

      Shut up. I’ve seen your nonsense on several videos already.

  • @highplains7777
    @highplains7777 5 років тому +9

    I did this one year and applied the product to my tomatoes. All of them did well that year. One of my plants had so many tomatoes that it looked cartoonishly fake. We're talking 80+ beefsteaks on that one plant! Sadly, nobody wanted to eat them. Even my father, an educated man who should know better, refused to eat them - he called them "turdmatoes," lol.

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 5 років тому +4

      Dick Tracy - There´s an old saying in Portuguese... "O segredo é a alma do negócio" - "Secret is the soul of business".
      So what they don´t know... LOL :-)
      Cheers

    • @octane7047
      @octane7047 10 місяців тому +1

      I think it's more about the mental image that makes the tomatoes unappetising 😂 Like, i don't mind eating plants fertilised with my kids' and my own feces. But other adults' humanure would make the food less appetising. Better just don't tell me 😂

  • @foodsgoodfarm2429
    @foodsgoodfarm2429 6 років тому +23

    my compost toilet is one of my favourite things on my homestead. you hit the nail on the head when you said that the main hurdle is the social "norm" that poo is toxic and should be whisked away as quickly as possible, never to be thought about again. once you get beyond that its one of the most satisfying feelings in the world :)

    • @LiLBitsDK
      @LiLBitsDK 2 роки тому

      well it is right that it is "toxic" but that is because we all flush it down the drain and off it goes to gigantic proportions of human sludge... THAT is toxic... both to us and the environment, especially when they overflow or "accidently runs out in the rivers".... but if you "accidently" took a shit in your yard... it's not toxic... bugs and microbes would have it gone in a few days... (yes I tested it) one poop on the lawn... wasn't a single sign of it a week after... (but no, don't go pooping all over your lawn... this was an experiment) compost it and you can use it as great fertilizer

  • @ceceliahuynh
    @ceceliahuynh 7 років тому +40

    I love how Greg and Lisa present, so dry and matter-of-fact about an awkward and taboo subject!

    • @samnikole1643
      @samnikole1643 6 років тому +1

      Cecelia Huynh Taboo? lol poo is not taboo subject!

    • @footballbaby1829
      @footballbaby1829 6 років тому

      didnt know talking about shit is a taboo subject, but if it is a joke/subject in a movie it becomes funny and accepted and no longer a taboo.

    • @samnikole1643
      @samnikole1643 6 років тому

      football baby LOL

  • @PermacultureHomestead
    @PermacultureHomestead 7 років тому +47

    i like you Greg we should just take care of our own shit ! Thanks again Jordan, love all your work, watch these all the time.

  • @verityandstumclellan8585
    @verityandstumclellan8585 2 роки тому +26

    Loving this so much. Just done a permaculture design course and right now composting our shit seems kind of the pinnacle of reconnecting what we do as humans with the hoop of life. So it's pretty much at the top of my list of changes to make in the coming weeks and months - I've just got to convince the rest of my family that it's a good move....(I've already started covertly started peeing on the compost pile). Thanks Greg, Lisa and Happen Films for this sweet and convincing little film.

    • @LouisOnEarth
      @LouisOnEarth Рік тому

      Humans and animals and poop 💩 and pee 💦 is magic.
      Watch the TED talk: turning deserts green by an environmentalist who is famous for having killed something like 40,000 elephants when he was “in charge” .. and idiotically as a young environmentalist thought culling was a good idea. 🤦🏼‍♂️
      He is making up for it though … still lots of beautiful elephants 🐘 gone ..
      the road to hell, and good intentions hey …

    • @kicknitoldskool
      @kicknitoldskool Рік тому +1

      I'm in the same boat. The question is - how to convince the wife & guests to use a bucket... I need some kind of fake-toilet-bucket for her comfort...

    • @cosmictruthseeker3796
      @cosmictruthseeker3796 11 місяців тому +1

      I don't think you are supposed to pee on the compost pile. You keep pee separate, such as very diluted to water a tree

    • @cosmictruthseeker3796
      @cosmictruthseeker3796 11 місяців тому +2

      @@kicknitoldskool there is a system called homebiogas that uses a regular toilet. THe waste goes into the biogas unit and creates cooking gas and effluent to fertillize the garden. Once she learns about the science of the biogas system, she can have her choice of a bucket (which is cheaper) or the biogas system.

    • @cosmictruthseeker3796
      @cosmictruthseeker3796 11 місяців тому +1

      the reason that people have this phobia is because waste can carry viruses. ALong with people learning about humanure, they also need to learn how to live healthfully and eliminate their diseases. Once a person is healthy, they should not need much convincing to switch to humanure composting. Then they also should not eat virus foods, like raw oysters, etc.

  • @jentompkins5322
    @jentompkins5322 7 років тому +78

    I read The Humanure Handbook a few years ago and it changed my perspective on human waste entirely. Hot composting can even break down radioactive waste in the soil! Microbes are some of our most valuable allies. Even if you can't see yourself pooping in a bucket anytime soon, it's worth a read. On our off-grid homestead we currently have a traditional outhouse, but I would love to move to a humanure system in the future.

    • @theCodyReeder
      @theCodyReeder 5 років тому +23

      Ok no. no amount of composting can change radioactivity. No chemical reaction, nothing you can do can influence radioactivity. Unless of course you mean just waiting out the half lives.

    • @willymakeit5172
      @willymakeit5172 5 років тому +6

      Break down radioactive waste, please provide references.

    • @timgiles9413
      @timgiles9413 4 роки тому

      I have a toilet for my bathroom and one in my outhouse (without the pit of coarse)
      If I'm working outdoors I hate to go inside to use the toilet, and visa versa.
      That's why I built my outhouse :)
      I don't use my outhouse in the winter because I don't want my bucket of stuff to freeze. :)

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser 4 роки тому +3

      @@willymakeit5172 Have you read this Swedish study?
      inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:31044889
      If you want more understanding on this subject look up "bioremediation of radioactive waste."

    • @clairemcconway6266
      @clairemcconway6266 3 роки тому +1

      @@theCodyReeder not true. Joseph Jenkins deals with it in his book and cites the credible sources for the data. I take it you haven't read his book or the studies he cites.

  • @wadepatton2433
    @wadepatton2433 4 роки тому +58

    "It took us a long time to lose our Shitphobia"
    thanks for that one! Actually the most pleasant "outhouses" I have ever used or visited were of the composting in a bucket nature. Decidedly most unpleasant have been pit-type or traditional. My turn has come and I have buckets!

    • @TheRojo387
      @TheRojo387 2 роки тому

      Coprophobia.

    • @manjichromagnon5480
      @manjichromagnon5480 2 роки тому

      Being disgusted by your own shit is a pretty evolved and sensible reaction survival wise... Until you know better

    • @elkeschmitt623
      @elkeschmitt623 2 роки тому

      When my brother was in the boy scouts and they went camping-the first thing they did= they dug a hole and build some construct around it - so you don't accidently fall into the hole

  • @nottooherbal
    @nottooherbal 4 роки тому +6

    Clearest and best composting video I've seen.

  • @ceciliasoans8113
    @ceciliasoans8113 4 роки тому +2

    Once you start composting there's no looking back.. that's true.. nature is amazing, it takes back all we throw..and keeps the earth beautiful for us

  • @stuartriley8282
    @stuartriley8282 Рік тому +2

    ADVICE PLEASE
    Love the on point video to explain the basics. I want to use this system in Papua New Guinea. The village has 3000 residents and our concerns are the water table is only 3-5 metres down. We would look at a community style compost area with multiple bins and gardens. Should we line the ground with plastic and the walls or just use 4" of palm branches and leaves on the base. There's a timber mill next door and we have unlimited saw dust.

  • @dubrd5926
    @dubrd5926 7 років тому +18

    Thanks for the great video and information. Thanks to David Jinkins, I have been using a composting toilet inside my house for the last 11 years. However I am too lazy to monitor the temperature or turn the compost pile or even have a bin for the piles. I just make 4 separate piles, one each year. I use the oldest pile for my garden this way it gives time for tree seeds to germinate in the piles so I have a constant supply of new seedlings as well as a covering for my newly planted crop seeds.

    • @timgiles9413
      @timgiles9413 4 роки тому +7

      It's actually Joseph Jenkins and his book is "The Humanure Handbook"
      He now has a 4th Edition that you should read.
      There is never a need to turn a humanure compost pile, ever.
      Use a RioTemp thermometer to check your cooking temps.

    • @myronplatte8354
      @myronplatte8354 Рік тому +2

      Lazy wins.

  • @Helen1118Kang
    @Helen1118Kang 7 років тому +21

    Awesome video! We need to spread this kind of videos to the world!😁😁 Thank you so much.

  • @ilovesvetlana101
    @ilovesvetlana101 7 років тому +21

    thank you for sharing! I was recently told that it was unsafe to use human manure for farming food, but these same people told me it was better to use animal manure. didn't make sense to me. thank you guys for showing how human manure compost should be used properly.

    • @gramursowanfaborden5820
      @gramursowanfaborden5820 7 років тому

      it's possible that it could cause Mad Cow Disease (CJD)or something similar if not properly composted before use as fertiliser.

    • @jeanclaudekalimunda263
      @jeanclaudekalimunda263 4 роки тому +5

      That goes to show you how twisted a human mind can be. What is the difference between a pig's poop and a human being's poop? I don't think there is really any. A pig is as much an omnivore as a human being. Yet, the pig's poop is valued as a wonderful fertilizer while our poop is damned and treated as something to be wasted and even to be ashamed of. Let's hope that in a few years this damnation will be set aside by many and the earth will start to profit from this endless resource from everywhere humans live.

    • @clairemcconway6266
      @clairemcconway6266 3 роки тому +3

      @@gramursowanfaborden5820 please explain how prions from infected brains could get into composted manure (of any type)?

    • @clairemcconway6266
      @clairemcconway6266 3 роки тому +1

      @@jeanclaudekalimunda263 exactly. Chickens are omnivores also, but the same ridiculous double standards seem to be widespread.

  • @ollysalanson9452
    @ollysalanson9452 8 днів тому

    Love these two, proper funny and informative.

  • @WeemakechangeCoNz
    @WeemakechangeCoNz 7 років тому +5

    That is the best Composting Toilet vid I have seen. Well Done!

  • @0penpress
    @0penpress 5 років тому +3

    Now That's What I Call Recycling. And Making the world a better place

  • @nadakuditigopikrishna6587
    @nadakuditigopikrishna6587 4 роки тому +2

    This method helps to get rid of polluting water resources across world. Thank you very much for sharing this great video.

  • @darakleinebaumfee5936
    @darakleinebaumfee5936 6 років тому +6

    Fabulous 😆 i like this fine and relaxed humor for this important theme.

  • @sourcecreator2222
    @sourcecreator2222 4 роки тому +8

    Lol! Great video! Ive started composting my manure recently with sawdust and it has been great. Recommended! Family coming onboard too.

  • @julkap4190
    @julkap4190 2 роки тому +4

    I like this. It reminds me our Slovak wooden latrines (they are less popular now but I remember them a lot from my childhood). But this looks cleaner and more useful (for gardening). I didn't like latrines because they were smelly and as a child I was scared that something will clime up from the pit. I still don't like them :D. But this looks good :) .

  • @eileenfb1948
    @eileenfb1948 7 років тому +7

    Thank you for this info. I thought it would be rather yukky but this looks easy. I imagine if you have buckets a few months old to empty, already mixed with sawdust, it should be not too bad making it into a compost heap.

  • @markanthony4655
    @markanthony4655 3 роки тому +1

    Loved the film. Always wondered if it could be done, now I have the answer. Thank you so much. Just need my own property now, as I intend to go as self sufficient as possible, with the absolute minimum of waste to be disposed of at the tip.

  • @preciousmetalhead5155
    @preciousmetalhead5155 5 років тому +19

    Sniffs composted poo...”mmmm, yum, good stuff”.....🤣🤣😂

    • @anthonytooley1833
      @anthonytooley1833 4 роки тому +8

      It does lol. It's funny but true. Properly composted humanure smells like the redwood forests in California. delicious. And at that point, it's technically no longer poop. You could look at it under a microscope, culture it, etc, and if it's properly composted you won't be able to find a *single trace* of fecal matter. It's a transformation of sorts.

    • @freedomordeath89
      @freedomordeath89 3 роки тому

      @@anthonytooley1833 No it doesn't smell delicious. You are sick.

  • @WhatDadIsUpTo
    @WhatDadIsUpTo 4 місяці тому +1

    I've done this for years, but I use only 2 buckets.
    I put a large plastic kitchen waste bag with a draw string into the bucket, use it until full (a week or so) then replace it with the other bag-lined bucket.
    Each bucket has a wire bale. I remove the bag's contents to the compost pile, re-cover it and let the bucket air out for a week outside.
    Never any foul smells or insects.

  • @thomasreto2997
    @thomasreto2997 5 років тому +3

    Thank you😀...I have read the Joe Jenkins humanure handbook as well...David the Good suggested it to me...what you say is so true...we need to change our thought process (my humble opinion) on resources and just get over ourselves...if everybody did what your family does, a lot of problems would disappear...when my wife and I move out of the city...I plan on practicing what you do..actually, if done right, I hear you actually can do what your doing in the city...if done correctly...

  • @Lisayingchen
    @Lisayingchen 7 років тому +26

    Great video! I already compost kitchen and yard scrap. I am inspired to compost poo too:)

  • @lwitt8448
    @lwitt8448 7 років тому +5

    Great video! We should all do this, thank you for sharing this information.

  • @jadeupton4
    @jadeupton4 7 років тому +9

    Thanks very much for this video. Has been looking a lot into changing our lifestyle and the various ways we can do that. I have been interested in the composting toilet for some time, so I found this very helpful, as I've not seen the process of transforming the waste into compost. Keep up the awesome videos, they are very inspiring! Thanks again. Jade, Auckland nz

  • @kickinghorse2405
    @kickinghorse2405 2 роки тому +2

    I love this system.
    Having said, my only reticence to using this compost on my garden is the fact that so many people (family members included) use meds that I'm not confident break down.
    I believe I'll do a bit more research about this because I really like this system.

    • @AJR-zg2py
      @AJR-zg2py Рік тому

      By the time you access the compost about a year later, anything in those meds will have been destroyed by the heat generated from the compost pile. Those meds will get absolutely cooked as the months go on so I don't think you have much to worry about.

    • @myronplatte8354
      @myronplatte8354 Рік тому

      Besides the direct microbial action.

    • @danielmogos8990
      @danielmogos8990 Рік тому

      ​@@AJR-zg2py Not really. Meds are created to resist hydrochloric acid and other digestive enzymes. If meds, are actually antibiotics, then you will actually have a big pile of poo and no compost, since all the job is done by bacteria.
      The same is if you use soap or any substance that has antibacterial properties.

  • @lets7121
    @lets7121 6 років тому +3

    Awesome, Keep making these videos, They're great!

  • @stephenshelton4267
    @stephenshelton4267 Рік тому +1

    I was renovating a house and took up both toilets to tile the floor, so I'd poop in a 5 gallon bucket. I was surpised by how little it smelled, and when I had enough in the bucket I dug a little hole in the yard and poured it in.

  • @ConscientiousOmnivore
    @ConscientiousOmnivore 6 років тому +2

    Awesome, very well presented in a concise manner.

  • @londonskynet
    @londonskynet 4 місяці тому

    Super simple and super Brilliant

  • @nothinginteresting1662
    @nothinginteresting1662 29 днів тому

    I always thought that food to eat and toilet were separate problems to solve, but as 6:02 shows, it's a beautiful closed system! There is no need to "manage" human waste when it is a wonderful resource!
    Eat -> Poop -> Compost -> Fertilize -> Grow (Repeat)
    Oh my... this is going to turn poop from "yuck!" to "amazing!"

  • @cor.b
    @cor.b 2 роки тому +1

    You guys are so cool! Thanks for an inspiring clip. Will read the book.

  • @GreatBoneStructure
    @GreatBoneStructure 3 роки тому

    Useful! Just reached the end of my buckets. Time to create the compost heap. Thanks!

  • @connorbarnes3662
    @connorbarnes3662 8 місяців тому

    fantastic video, fantastic enthusiasm , the message needs to spread .

  • @henkjanssen1252
    @henkjanssen1252 7 років тому +2

    Love their enthusiasm!! One other possible way of doing this to completely eliminate the risk of pathogens is using this manure to fertilize animal food (i.e. corn fields, pasture, etc) and in turn use the animal manure to fertilize the vegetables for human consumption, knowing that pathogens are usually species specific.

    • @myronplatte8354
      @myronplatte8354 Рік тому +1

      At this point we’re talking about perceived risk, not actual risk.

  • @emilybautista
    @emilybautista 3 роки тому +1

    Good job guys! Thanks for the info, we're going off grid soon!

  • @colbys1257
    @colbys1257 7 років тому +5

    Fantastic! Thanks for the video. We are about 1/2 in house septic tank, and 1/2 compost toilet right now. I know that the resulting compost is perfectly healthy, but at this stage we are using ours only on our fruit trees, berry bushes etc. Next year I hope to have talked my partner into 'letting' me use it on fruiting vegetables, and we'll work our way to using it on everything from there. We do have a lot of garden waste compost and amp it up with horse poop and seaweed (when we can find it on our rough beach) but I don't like wasting a perfectly good and needed resource. :)

  • @rachelaalbers
    @rachelaalbers 7 років тому +34

    Great film. More people should be composting their poo instead of flushing it down the loo :) Urine is great for the garden and so is blood collected from a period- people need to get over the uncomfortable feeling of using human waste in the garden, there is nothing wrong with it if used correctly.

    • @pimpz7409
      @pimpz7409 4 роки тому +1

      Period blood?

    • @Robertjustice101
      @Robertjustice101 3 роки тому +2

      Image how much people could save not having city sewer systems. If cities and towns or garbage companys developed a humanure collection service. Or people could throw there humanure in yard waste bin. Were it all gets composted all together.

    • @ronhull6670
      @ronhull6670 3 роки тому

      Are you nuts

    • @kiwi9813
      @kiwi9813 2 роки тому

      Symbiotic

    • @AJR-zg2py
      @AJR-zg2py Рік тому

      I can't imagine "Honey, go stand above the zucchinis" will be go very well with the missus.

  • @ShaunPeterKelly
    @ShaunPeterKelly 2 роки тому +3

    I’m inspired to build one in my back garden as I do grow my own veg. Wonder how many allotment holders have one?

  • @aprilparsons8498
    @aprilparsons8498 Рік тому

    I just started doing this one month ago and I am browsing ways to make the compose more stainable. Once I get more money I will build a small compose area in my garden.

  • @georgiegirlization
    @georgiegirlization Рік тому +1

    He said something that sticks out for me and that is... Taking responsibility. We have a good resource which we flush everyday.

  • @abdulmuti1
    @abdulmuti1 6 років тому +1

    Thank you, the video is short sweet and well presented.

  • @Lagaloggie
    @Lagaloggie 4 роки тому +2

    My favorite among Happen Films videos. It's not easy to talk about what I term as "poo-bia" but you guys made it natural, interesting, even funny. Funny and bittersweet that in our supposed advanced state of civilization, there's much dread about a resource that comes out of our rear ends. Your on-cam talent, Greg (Inwood) is a ham. He can talk poo to me all day, such a funny, down-to-earth, guy, sort of a person who wouldn't bullsh*t you (pun intended LOL). Keep up the good work and the faith!

  • @controversialhappiness3404
    @controversialhappiness3404 7 років тому +2

    Sounds a wonderful natural recycling system. Everything you eat is going back to grow food for you to eat again.
    Will definitely try this when I get my own house.

  • @simplylifeau
    @simplylifeau Рік тому

    Great story, thanks for sharing it! 👍

  • @alvegutt42
    @alvegutt42 3 роки тому

    they do this in japan and many countries. everyone should grow some food and compost their waste. humbling and good for the environment

  • @my_freelance_life
    @my_freelance_life 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for the video.

  • @unnameablespace8945
    @unnameablespace8945 2 роки тому

    Delightful! Thanks for sharing!

  • @ccgoulart
    @ccgoulart 5 років тому +1

    Beautiful - Cris, from Brazil!

  • @charsasso521
    @charsasso521 5 років тому +1

    I love it thank you so much for your time and info

  • @madmodifier
    @madmodifier 7 років тому +4

    That is a great solution for rural areas. What is the suggestion for suburban and urban areas? They produce vastly more waste than anywhere else. Thanks for the video!

    • @jackchang5548
      @jackchang5548 7 років тому +1

      In my country, we have a private company on national level took care of it, either direct sewerage to their treatment facilities, and pumping and transport from septic tanks.
      Basically premise owners pay a small amount of money to get rid of our shits. Effluent is treated, and solid waste turned into biosolids and biogas.

    • @madmodifier
      @madmodifier 7 років тому

      How did it get through the sewer to them without water?

    • @jackchang5548
      @jackchang5548 7 років тому +1

      All drains, e.g. sinks, showers, etc., are connected to the same plumbing.

  • @vancamerawoman7399
    @vancamerawoman7399 4 роки тому +2

    Ooh yum! Good stuff 😊

  • @BalaTAM
    @BalaTAM 7 років тому +3

    Wonderful stuff for learning .. Do it yourself - DIY

  • @collinshepherd1454
    @collinshepherd1454 5 років тому +6

    "Thanks for watching this shitty film..." hahaha
    Thanks! I love your films!

  • @AwakenThyself
    @AwakenThyself Рік тому

    Brilliant!! We need this NOW more than ever xoxoxo

  • @fromscratchauntybindy9743
    @fromscratchauntybindy9743 7 років тому +24

    Somehow I don't think I'd get this past my landlord...

    • @yvonne1118
      @yvonne1118 7 років тому +5

      Belinda Weber except, when done & maintained properly, there are no flies, smells, etc. wouldn't know what type of composting it was except for the separate toilet.

    • @yeseniacoco434
      @yeseniacoco434 3 роки тому

      You could make a room for it

    • @yeseniacoco434
      @yeseniacoco434 3 роки тому

      @@carboncollapse8435 I was joking lol those things can explode

  • @manofTao
    @manofTao 6 років тому +1

    Kiwis.. I love these people :)

  • @jacobgbenja
    @jacobgbenja 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for a great educating video!! One question what about the toilet paper? Do you use a special type or none at all??

    • @rubygray7749
      @rubygray7749 2 роки тому

      Any type. It all goes in. Anything that lived before can go in. Joe Jenkins adds dead dogs, chickens, roadkill, plus possums and raccoons that he has shot. The only thing remaining after the process is bones and maybe a bit of hair.

  • @eco_guardian
    @eco_guardian 6 років тому

    Awesome - great film

  • @nanaluke
    @nanaluke 4 роки тому +4

    Greg is cooked mate 😂 I want some of his weed 😂😂

  • @frankthegamerespiritu8655
    @frankthegamerespiritu8655 2 роки тому

    Great info. Thanks.

  • @jamesx2703
    @jamesx2703 3 місяці тому

    "mmm yum, good stuff" not sure id be sticking my face in it 😂

  •  5 років тому +6

    Its a weird topic but it happens everyday so we can't just close our eyes and pretend it doesn't exist. I'm in the process of getting ready to build a composting toilet for my garden.

  • @MrToontuber
    @MrToontuber 4 роки тому +1

    This the shit I was looking for.. 🤭

  • @tthompson4335
    @tthompson4335 2 роки тому

    Great video. Good informative

  • @naturewoman1274
    @naturewoman1274 3 роки тому +2

    I'd do it but I've heard you need to separate wee from poo which I'd find difficult as I always need both at the same time

  • @amicelli389
    @amicelli389 7 років тому +1

    so great

  • @georgecarlin2656
    @georgecarlin2656 Рік тому

    1:33 I use sawdust (70%) with charcoal (30%) as a cover material to eventually compost biochar.

  • @chickengoatfish
    @chickengoatfish 3 роки тому

    thank you very much . love from karnataka !

  • @suzannebazeghi5698
    @suzannebazeghi5698 2 роки тому

    I love that i will do it hopfully soon in my farm.

  • @DelisaRenideo
    @DelisaRenideo 7 років тому +3

    Wonderful video! We also use this system in our own home in Alaska. The colder temps make it take a bit longer, but it still heats up and we use it after a couple of years. Thanks for sharing this video. By the way, where do you live?

    • @yvonne1118
      @yvonne1118 7 років тому

      Delisa Renideo - - yaaay! good for y'all! ((:

  • @elwood212
    @elwood212 Рік тому

    I set up my “Dog N Bone’ in a 4 man tent on our block while we build. It’s been going for 6 months and it gets fed on weekends we are there. I expected a full isn bucket to have a bit of smell being left in the tent for a few weeks during the rain, yet nothing. No smell apart from the saw dust . I did make my own version of a bokashi spray and give it a spray now and then. We don’t wee in it and keep that diluted on the fruit trees who love it, esp the citrus’s.
    I feel sad we don’t all do it in the cities . Personally I find a lot of water loos quite stinky. I hate the long drops, they are a maggot pit of disgusting detritus, composting is the easiest and best for sure. 🙏🇦🇺

  • @TheLifeMidwife
    @TheLifeMidwife 3 роки тому

    epic video, thank you!

  • @rmatene
    @rmatene 7 років тому

    AWESOME video!!!!!!

  • @joseortiz5965
    @joseortiz5965 3 роки тому

    Awesome

  • @melindalancaster9648
    @melindalancaster9648 7 років тому +7

    i grew a 7ft dandelion over my septic tank...i wish i had the smart phones back then.

  • @Rootcauses451
    @Rootcauses451 7 років тому +16

    What do you do when humans take medications like Aminophylline, Beclametasone, theophylline, Paracetamol, Norethisterone, codeine etc... that could harm bacteria/biology in the cycle? Is it required that all humans "donating" waste should be medication free?

    • @3rty7
      @3rty7 7 років тому +3

      perhaps the 65˚ temp neutralizes that too.

    • @eileenfb1948
      @eileenfb1948 7 років тому +6

      You raise a very interesting point. Antibiotic use could harm the helpful bacteria.

    • @TheJamesRedwood
      @TheJamesRedwood 7 років тому +6

      Fungi take care of heavy metals and exotic toxins like medications. They remove them from the system and store them in their bodies. So you would have to be careful about growing edible mushrooms.

    • @jackchang5548
      @jackchang5548 7 років тому +7

      Yes.
      Modern human diet and lifestyle screwed up many things, especially body's natural immune system build up, gut flora, increased incidence of asthma.
      You'll have to go "cold turkey" from unnecessary antibiotics and reducing processed food if you ever wants to do what this couple is doing. Tough it out any discomforts.
      Save the antibiotics only for life threatening diseases.
      When you're eating healthily, you rarely need over the counter medications. I haven't taken any medications for years now.

    • @jentompkins5322
      @jentompkins5322 7 років тому +13

      As the book explains, hot composting can break down these kinds of pharmaceutical by-products and can even be used to neutralize radioactive waste!

  • @McDuffin
    @McDuffin 7 років тому +77

    I love the idea but it could never go mainstream. Most people are way too lazy to maintain this kind of system properly.

    • @yvonne1118
      @yvonne1118 7 років тому +4

      Fuff Mcduffin - - yes, & hopefully systems will evolve around this practice.

    • @amylivingston4590
      @amylivingston4590 7 років тому +19

      Most people wouldn't maintain a backyard compost bin, either...but they'll bag up their leaves and put them at the curb to go into a municipal compost bin. So I think this could indeed "go mainstream" if it were done on a similarly large scale. It's just a matter of leaving buckets of waste at the curb for pickup instead of bags of leaves...not much more work, really. (And a large-scale hot composter would probably reach the required temperature faster.)

    • @McDuffin
      @McDuffin 7 років тому +7

      Amy Livingston that's not really what I meant, however I really like your train of thought. I would have never thought of a suggestion like that. I was talking more about sanitary conditions and health. My personal feeling is that it wouldn't be long before people started cutting corners. The other issue is that you'd be hard pressed to talk most people into embracing this idea. It would take a little extra care and effort and unfortunately, people in today's society are not into putting extra effort into anything.

    • @a.w.9662
      @a.w.9662 7 років тому +5

      And I can't see older folks with aches and pains struggling with what have to pretty heavy buckets.

    • @xxnotmuchxx
      @xxnotmuchxx 7 років тому +3

      Earthships have this system build-in.

  • @TheGreenFingerers
    @TheGreenFingerers 7 років тому

    Absolutely brilliant! Love those guys! 💩

  • @emmastacey8742
    @emmastacey8742 7 років тому +2

    Another great video, thank you! What about urine...all together in the bucket?

    • @happenfilms
      @happenfilms  7 років тому +5

      Thanks Emma! In the system described in the video urine goes into the bucket as well. It depends on the system, sometimes it's separated from the poo.

    • @emmastacey8742
      @emmastacey8742 7 років тому +3

      Thanks for your fast response! Yes, I've seen other systems that seperate the urine from the poo. This system seems much easier! love it!

  • @FranekCyganek25
    @FranekCyganek25 2 роки тому +1

    most people say it stinks but most of us didnt knew how the mechanism of stress and stinking works. When we are stressed about something for example bacterias( they are really good for us but a lot we dont know about how tgey works in nature) our brain catches chemicals that are toxic to show that where the danger is coming from- so we smell something 1000 way worse than it is in reality, when we will be build antistress in our mind and heart and body we can experience every thing nicer and nicer

  • @evegrowing7749
    @evegrowing7749 3 роки тому

    Great video👍

    • @evegrowing7749
      @evegrowing7749 3 роки тому

      Omg forgot I already posted here, but still you people are the best, the change we must see in the World👍

  • @NalamPenu
    @NalamPenu Рік тому

    Lovely ❤❤

  • @juliannevillecorrea
    @juliannevillecorrea 3 роки тому

    thank you 🤸🍄🐝

  • @Shambala_G
    @Shambala_G 4 роки тому +2

    Spot on - everyone needs to deal with their own sh*t 😀

  • @favoriteboy72
    @favoriteboy72 7 років тому

    Great ending, LOL.

  • @husseinsaid4710
    @husseinsaid4710 2 роки тому +1

    Good man good woman. I like that.

  • @sarahvandenberg6581
    @sarahvandenberg6581 Рік тому

    Finally building mine today!! 🎉 iv been using a hole, and as someone with mobility issues. 😅 that difficult, I can't wait to contribute to my hotcompost!! Any tips for a beginner RE what not to add ? 🙏🙏 Ngā mihi

  • @chas2can124
    @chas2can124 Рік тому

    You mean I can feed my plants with my own Crap? Who would have thought Mr Crapper would have thought about that when he patented the Crapper!

  • @MagicBusandUs
    @MagicBusandUs Рік тому

    I wish I could! Our county won’t allow, the next piece to be friendly to alternative.

  • @jesuisravi
    @jesuisravi 3 роки тому +1

    makes sense to me.

  • @NorthWoodsCountryBoy
    @NorthWoodsCountryBoy 2 місяці тому

    Thanks so much for the videos! Quick question: After five years do you basically use the same system? I am researching doing this on my homestead but it appears that there is some disagreement on the literature as to whether you should separate urine from feces when composting. Some argue that it is dangerous to combine them and it slows down the composting process, while other sources say it's better to combine them because the urine helps it compost at a higher temperature. Thanks in advance for any advice that you can offer!