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

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.

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 :)

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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 ❤

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

"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!

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

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

Clearest and best composting video I've seen.

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

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

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

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

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 :) .

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.

Love these two, proper funny and informative.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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. :)

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

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.

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.

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!"

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

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

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.

Super simple and super Brilliant

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.

Awesome, very well presented in a concise manner.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

Wonderful stuff for learning .. Do it yourself - DIY

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

Beautiful - Cris, from Brazil!

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for the video.

Great story, thanks for sharing it! 👍

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?

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

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

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?

Delightful! Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant!! We need this NOW more than ever xoxoxo

This the shit I was looking for.. 🤭

thank you very much . love from karnataka !

Ooh yum! Good stuff 😊

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. 🙏🇦🇺

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!

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

Kiwis.. I love these people :)

My concern is being part of that Asian community who wash our body parts with water and soap after the loo. How can that be managed using this compost toilet?

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

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

makes sense to me.

Is there any way to have the bucket system inside a home? And just take the buckets outside when they are full.

Awesome

It's Poofect...

Awesome - great film

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

Hello! 👋🏻 why do we need to compost the humanure? Why don’t you just burry it, or let it on the soil? (Like animal poop)? Trying to understand the process and why we compost it 🤗🙏🏻). Thank you very much! Loved your video!

RV vehicles have composting toilets too! Inside the RV!

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

Good man good woman. I like that.

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

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!

Great info. Thanks.

so great

I’ve been interested ever since the movie “the Martian”

Great ending, LOL.

This might be a stupid question but I'm trying to learn. So if someone has a disease and does this system can the people eating the plants get that disease?