ooh ar! i’ve shat on a fair few compost toilets in my time. It is cool to see them at festivals as they are more environmentally friendly and it’s a good place to promote that kinda thing but it is a bit of a shame just to have one off compost toilet bonanza sessions – Ideally people would all have them in their gardens on a more permanent basis where shit is not only diverted from water and energy intensive sewage systems but made into something beautiful, compost for growing your food. Ofcourse that’s a right hard mission and it’s only really possible if you ‘own’ your own land which most of us dont.
There are much more opportunities with urine though, it’s sterile (so a hell of a lot safer that shit) and can provide nitrogen to a healthy compost heap. Compost heaps need both carbon and nitrogen so if you have a lot of dry carbon rich matter like sticks, dried grass, hay, whatever they make a good mix. Also if you grow your own veg, grow Comfrey plants and harvest the leaves to make organic liquid fertilizer, throwing buckets of piss on the comfrey makes it even an even better source of organic fertilizer.
