I've made a couple of these and they are great cheap toilet for the DIY'er. The wheels mean that it is easier to move a bin full of crap around. On the other hand, one of the design issues is that a full wheelie bin this size is very heavy and difficult to maneuver in a small tight space (which is generally where they are). So not recommended for the average person to have to move a full bin this size- you don't want any bins tipping over which can happen as they are so tall and top heavy!! Options are to only fill the bin to 2/3 the volume or you can get wheelie bins in smaller sizes, but the trade off is that they will fill quicker. The smaller bins will also benefit setups where you have height restrictions and cannot install the bigger bins. You need to think about the access to the bin under the pedestal and getting the bin to where it will compost (needs 6-10 months as mentioned) while another one is being used. An addition to this model is installing a fan in the upper side or top of the bin and associated piping to reduce smells and increase air circulation to help the composting process and also a urine diverting seat and associated piping will greatly reduce bad odors! This has been revolutionary in our DIY composting toilet journey- installing a urine diverting seat. No more stinking toilet smells once you divert/ remove the urine from the pile- it's amazing!! If you go with peeing in the main chamber, be mindful of where you attach the urine drain as when you move the bin fittings can be easily snapped and in my experience are usually a point of leakage so seal them well! But I can't recommend enough diverting the urine from the pile in the first place. You also want to have the installation of the urine drain easy to access for cleaning and maintenance. A few tips.... .

Geoff is the Chuck Norris of permaculture.

My first thought was, " how do I perch on top to crap in it"?

Can you show us the type of toilet installed and how it connects to the wheelie bin downpipe please. Also in another video you showed how to connect a downpipe to help further wick the smells away please

I feel like there was a whole section of this video missing? It went from placing a drainage layer to adding sawdust to suddenly closing the lid and leaving for 10months. No in between of explaining how the actual toilet works and the inside toilet etc? Would love to learn all that bit too....can you make another more detailed version for us green learners pleasw:0)

India needs about a billion of those

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.

Thanks I was looking for a Swedish model composting toilet. Been around for hundreds of years. Built in and permanent It needs height and a slope down one story to a door at the bottom for clean out once a year. The slope is "stepped" and the steps slope downward too. This allows the material to turn as it makes it's way to the bottom clean out. I'd like the proper degree of slope. Don't want to get plugged up because it was not steep enough and don't want it too steep either. It needs the time to fall and turn as it composts. Liquid drains out the bottom. It needs a high pipe to/through the roof that controls the smell with the natural up-draft that is created. This requires a tight lid so you're not losing the heat of the home. Air intake vents in the clean out door. I'm building with superadobe and it doesn't get much simpler than that. A hole in the floor would work and be healthy for you but I like the height of a toilet these days. Did you know "squatting" is the natural way to go? Your bowel hole opens fully and operates properly when squatted and only half works on a toilet. It leads to problems later in life. Don't ask me how I know. IBS anyone? How about a "leaky" hole? And it's not the one in the floor! When I was young I was shown a hole in the floor as the toilet and told the people were substandard, ... little did I know that I was the substandard one. Nothing natural and organic was good enough for this idiot eh? Not when it can be "New And Improved", for profit that is. I've since discovered that profit is a lie and like all lies needs the constant expenditure of time and energy to exist. Your time and energy. Right Santa? Profit is the method used to concentrate the abundance of "our" world into the hands and control of the few, the elite, the entitled, and the great winners in a perverted world of win/lose. This hoarded abundance is then used to control and direct a population of brainwashed "for profit" economic slaves who only understand, worship, and practice the childish win/lose as civilised. Don't ask me how I know, .... Man, everything that's wrong with me was beaten into me as a child under constant threat of being wrong, making a mistake, failing, and being a filthy loser. The academic win/lose eh? The win/lose, just a disrespectful and childish understanding of our live/die life. Except you don't die silly! You just don't have an opinion that matters and your abilities MUST benefit the winners. I'm working on the Ways of the Win/Win and am happy knowing the future people will know that the work and the Ways of the Win/Win was born of their filth and failure, (that would be ME!) and not their wisdom or honour. The poor perverted people of the win/lose have no wisdom or honour. Sad but true. I know this because I once thought I had a little honour. Never even thought I was wise and still don't. I'm just doing a dirty job that must be done. You know, asking why people allow their own children to be born owing a debt of lies and corruption called "eternal growth and profit". Why do we allow our children to be born slaves? Easily denied eh? specially by the "free". lol, lol, lol, ... Then there's the paradigm shift from "for profit", to, "Not For Profit". A community owned Economic Win/Win based in time alone, backed by the abundance of "our" world and built on a foundation of Truth and Reality. Oh yeah, ... the paradigm shift is given freely and unconditionally. That alone makes it "suspect" eh? Then there's the cowards who drool "Commie". lol Sorry for using your post to plant these seeds of Win/Win, ... but I learned from the win/lose and don't play fair! Have a great one.

Oh my Lord! How simple! I knew there was a better way! And this system is going to save me a lot of money! Thank you!

Thanks a lot. I live in a zone that need to be preserve. But careless people do not know how to do it. Im working in a ecology proyect. But luck o money stop me. Now I will process with you kindness work. God bless you.

Awsome. I totally agree with your point that this is the most ethical way to handle our waste.

This is so good.. Accessible... Affordable... Ethical... Thank you mate!

That could be any of many plant materials, not just sawdust. Dry grass, sugarcane bagasse, cornstalks, rice hulls...

For a better water tight thread through the bin for the ball valve. Go to reece irrigation and get a 20mm water tank adaptor. They screw together either side and clamp against the bin with water tight rubber flange either side.

Wish this was legal everywhere!

Wow thats very tempting, a wheelie bin compost dunny that costs maybe 100 bucks per year or a council approved aerated dunny with an annualised cost of about 1500.

My brother Has a similar system without the air pipes. He uses black soldier fly larva which do a great job. You never see the adult flies Or smell much of anything.

Great topic!! Thanks for posting! But it is a compost bin not a toilet. 😁 Show us your toilet Geoff 🙏💩 And do you add greens? I use the Joe Jenkins way.

Excellent, Geoff. Best I've seen using humanure.

That's a garden hose you don't want to drink from

If you’re new to this and not elderly, disabled or in very cold climates... the simplest toilet is a tiny garden shed that isn’t tightly built, built on top of a platform made from pallets screwed to posts on concrete footings. Put this near your front door, ideally in a spot that won’t get sun all day in summer. Line the composting chamber with black poly, and mound up soil or gravel as a base to keep surface runoff away from seeping through the bottom of your heap. Better than sawdust is rotted wood duff, but this is harder to find.

G'day mate, this is a really good idea I'm going to use this on my farm. Thanks.

I would like to see the actual toilet inside the house...Is it just like a long drop? Do you keep adding sawdust?

Excellent. I use a bucket, old used compost for soak and a dalek composter for rendering the output.

Thank you. I wish everyone that has a lg yard make one. Special in the So. West water shortages places.

when the lid is closed wouldn't that Block air ventalation and thus lead to anaerobic decomposition that we are trying to avoid?

Thank you! Currently the only waste we produce in my house is my dogs & ours manure. I was looking for the next step, so im changing my bathroom to dry one, and i was thinking on putting a biodigestor, so probably im going to place this one, and the other 6months will gas them... Thank you for all the information

Permaculture FTW! ✌

It’s really great design! ….except it only works for bathrooms that are up off ground high enough to give clearance to put the bin underneath to catch the waste.

Love it, looks a lot easier to care for instead of a 5 gallon bucket. But... convince my local county to change the codes first so they don't make me tear it apart. Our society is all about "false Green"--they'd never allow natural poop to go where it's supposed to and cycle into the ground outside of expensive dug up septic leech systems. They're all talk and no real practical leadership-type action. We have a septic... but if it ever goes bad I'm in no hurry to fix it cause I know how to naturally deal with this stuff like nature does(and Geoff teaches). I'd just never be able to sell my home until I fixed our septic if it broke.

I have 3 normal compost bins full of red worms compositing worms. Iv read that they don't like human waste so I decided to experiment. I put some of my own toilet waste in one of the bins and after a cupple weeks it was jam packed with worms. I suspect they like my waste because I have a diet high in fruit and veg and low in meat. The compost from that bin is for trees and shrubs only to be safe.

Truly a good system.

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Great information and nice presentation, thank you for sharing.

The liquid waste coming out of the hose at the bottom is raw sewage and potentially a heath risk. It can't drain as you describe.

2011 post on Milkwood website, the exact same thing. They are also permies like us !

Best I've ever seen!, cheers mate!

This Valentine's day i am thinking of making myself a compost toilet, here in UK 🤔

Has any 'professional' criticised this idea? I like it a lot.

Humanure... absolutely brilliant!

Dog looks happy as

Great information, thank you for sharing.

did not show this collectors relation to the toilet which has to be on the second floor ?

Without sounding disgusting or cruel, can you add compost worms? Living in the suburbs what would you do with the liquid, my neighbour is down hill from me, i wouldn't be asking if I didn't like him.

May I ask how you vent this kind of compost toilet? Also wondering how you keep the "delivery pipe" clean. Would be great if you had a link to the plans for this in greater detail. Is that possible. Many thanks!

Gave the video a like, but I do feel like there were a couple of steps left out of the explainer video...?

Interesting idea...just wondering if enough oxidation is coming inside the container ...the tubes in the edges???

Hi Geoff. It been a really long time since "hearing " from you. Excellent Video.

Question. Why don't homes with indoor plumbing use the vented methane as a renewable heating and cooking source?

this method will literally take ages. do not expect, that you are waiting around for results.

I can't understand - if you should keep the bin locked for 6 to 10 months - where you should store you waste in this period? It seems you should have more bins.

I love you man.

I feel like you have different regulations there than I do.

What about medications excreted by the body?

Thanks for sharing 👍👌

We are in process of building one that should make Mr. Lawton proud. Question, does sawdust have to be added after every solid use, or just put the 20L sawdust on the bottom as described in the video?

Like this video but its not allowed here unfortunately. I would love one like this

Is it not a problem that the "surplus liquid" is not just sterile urine, but urine that has gone through shit? What are the requirements for the gravel trench to make sure that the black water coming out of the system isn't unsafe?

Thank you

What happened to the director's uncut video? It was about 20 minutes of detailed info..this is severely edited. Is there a link? 🙏🙏🙏

is this a portable septic tank?????? this is soo smart!

Thank you kindly ✌️

Hello, tell me please, do you pour more sawdust and how often?

im curing why you suggest directing the surplus liquid to a gravel trench or reed bed. cant you use it to fertilize trees/veg garden? if so, what dilution ratio should be used? same as urine?

Good one!! Thanks 👍

What happens if the evacuation of the human processed food is explosive? If the thing gets on all the walls of the bin, will it disapear with the compost?

I'm curious howany of these bins you would need, given they have to decompose for 6-7 months?

What do the pipes (half pipes) in the corners do? I see that they help with air and ventilation but they are under the lid, so is there air in the pipes but not much air flow? How does this help? Does it help air get down under the level the bin is filled to? I guess you're adding wood chips every time you make a deposit?

Awesome! 😃

So, that hose thing... it's ok just to drain that out into the open? If i'm not missing something, would that be urine and "poop juice" that's being drained?? Thanks very much for the information, I'm hoping to build one of these.

I don't see the actual toilet, the part you sit on, is it all built above this unit???

Fantastic!

So are you separating the urine from this build or that’s what the drainage aspect is for?

Could you also stick a bunch of pipes with holes in it like Johnson Su?

How many bins do people use? I have six bins, live with my husband and four dogs and am constantly running out of space… been doing this for two years and had to transfer unfinished compost into big bags on the land… any help appreciated!

And where do I go to the loo for 6-10 months after it is "locked down"? It means building a whole stack of these things? Doesn´t make a lot of sense to me.

great video, however plastic is a major issue, more specifically micro plastic

Im thinking of making this for our ne toilet area, i am having trouble finding the pipe that goes from the actual seat to the bin, can anyone help me with this. tia.

Excellent ❤

This is the video I relied on to start making humanure, but two years later, I’ve got a big issue. The bins just aren’t composting and the taps are clogged so I can’t get rid of all the liquid. We are a family of two adults and 4 dogs but only put a bit of their poo from the patio, when they poo on the land, I don’t pick it up. We have six wheelie bins, and I’m at a point where I’ve had to transfer unfinished poo compost into big white bags because I need to make space for new poop coming in. Any suggestions? Anybody else have sissies and are stuck in a really bad position now? We have no more space for more bins and it seems silly to do that anyways since I’m trying to make this work, not end up with 100 bins on my land with nothing composting ever… any help appreciated!

That's the shizzzzzz! ;- ) and even the pizzzz! Seriously, that is cool, and so simple. But, you did not really show us the full process. The bin you showed us at the end did not have a hole in the top. How did it get there. Can you do a full video that includes the complete process? And you illustrate the "cleaning process". I like the idea that this can be in the room underneath the toilet. I've seen huge composting toilets at campgrounds and they did not smell at all. Currently my toilet has a leak and I am wasting water until I get it fixed, so this would be much cheaper and simpler.

why do you put 4 pipes on the sides ? Please someone explain, i need to make this.

I am wondering, is it fine to dig a hole and make the humanure in there? On a property, a designated place for this purpose. It's my dream to build that for myself in a sustainable home, in the future. I imagine in a deep hole manure and food waste will still become into a fertilizer, with time.

I was thinking of using a maintenance utility cart, but at a height of 40 inches, I’d have to raise my cabin a lot. I’m in cold climate of Maine

Can you please explain the toilet system and how it connects to the compost bin.

when im older i might meak one of these

Hey mate - how many bins would one need for 2 people? Surely one bin would be full every 2 months? So 6 bins? thanks

Is it better to have a vent pipe? Something like Paul Wheaten has built at his place

Well, Joe Jenkins, author of Humanure Handbook, recomends the use of bucket toilets that from time to time are discarded in larger compost bins enveloped with a thick layer (25cm to 30cm, 10 inches to a foot) of hay or straw. The idea is to compost the human excrements via thermophilic process (if that makes sense) and says that, in a compost bin that is able to retain temperatures over 55 degrees celcius, it needs only a week or so to kill all or the majority of the pathogens. In a bin that don't use thermophilic process, it will take something around 2 years to eliminate the pathogens. So, my question is: do you agree with him? Can we safely use your (or his) method to build soil in a garden?

Why does this method work without a separate compost pile? I know it doesn't work inside 5-gallon buckets because there isn't enough mass to create the heat necessary to destroy the pathogens. How much mass do you need for hot composting to happen? And how does the plastic of the wheelie bin handle that heat?

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Hi there, I live in a place that unfortunately is forbidden because the neighbors made and gave a lot of flys. Whether it's on the covered part of my backyard or inside the house, is there any way to compose my poop in a closed/sealed box? What would you have to do? Put extra bacterias? Put a humidifier in it? - A oxygenator? Helppp God bless u guys ❤️🙏🏼

What does the toilet look like, that has the pipe to it to the wheelie bin

The half pipes in the corners of the bin, do they need ambient air flow, forced air flow, or is static air pocket sufficient to induce good composting?

Delicious!

Would you have any idea how to build compost toilets for a house please ???

How to make the most complicated toilet in the world

so you need to make more than one bin then when one fills up you switch it with a new one let sit for 10 months then empty and put back in line for refill? even if you make more than a couple its still cheaper than the others at 2000. usd

Amazing ! but I am curios why wasn’t the original green lid unacceptable to use ?

Hey Geoof, thanks for the video, looks great! Doesn't the humanure require air to compost in the proper way? Will stinky air get out of the toilet with such a system?