Good idea!

And if you collect the urine separately, so the sawdust/manure contents stays fairly dry, a brown paper grocery bag might be just the thing for the same effect.

If this is a new idea to some of you, there is a really good online (free) book with more answers about this than you have questions, and it has all of the drawings and photos that the paper version has: The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. See link below. There is also the optional download for $10 -- click on 'Handbook' in the bar near the top of the page.

Sue

Here is a link that might be useful: The Humanure Handbook

Yes, a grocery bag would work if urine is not included. Good idea.

For those that can't hold a squat, a simple wood frame could set over the cardboard box.

Have used a urine bucket as recommended by the book Sol Viva for a couple of years now on my flower gardens. Have NEVER had such a lush and beautiful flower bed before, but I burned my peonies and phlox so I did the following:

Mix is about 1 to 10, urine to water, then I stir in a spoon or so of washing soda to neutralize the acid. I got some litmus sticks from the pharmacy, and now my fertilizer is neutral pH.

Two of us generate a bucket a day which is about right for fertilizing about a quarter acre of flowers/shrubs.

We both take a fair amount of medication which is why I haven't wanted to use it on the vegetable garden.

Small world, Solviva is just a few miles from me. Ana Edey has done a lot of good experimentation on many aspects of sustainability.

A little TMI. Tucked into the pines north of my lower garden, I built a glass-sided outhouse from sliding shower doors retrieved from the dump. It is framed in standard 2x4s, with the doors on their sides. The bottom panels on the sides and back, and the entrance, are all frosted glass, but the upper panels and roof are clear. There is a cardboard box with sawdust and a plastic bucket, both fit under a bench with a standard toilet seat bolted to it. Just outside is a three-bin composting system with a covered drum of sawdust from a sawmill not far away. The help, the family, and a rare few friends are willing to use it, and it is not at all offensive. You can see from a good distance if it is occupied, but the details are obscured by the frosted lower panels. It gives a great view of an old apple tree and the asparagus beds. The Humanure andbook is on a shelf by the door, next to the TP.

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So a glass crapper isn't TMI?

FWIW, I also followed the Jenkin model of using huge amounts of sawdust until I was advised by a lifetime permaculturalist that it is better in every way to use very little or no sawdust and use fungussy twigs and leaf detritus instead.

Never thought of using a box.

We use finely shredded wheat straw in a five gallon pail. I should use a mix of straw and leaves, I think it would be more absorbent. We have the "toilet" in the wash-up shed we built. It also has a sink and washing machine. We supply the water through a hose that exposed to the sun so it can get pretty darn hot in the afternoon.

Lloyd

Yep, straw is ideal. I use it when I can.

Someday I'll have the guts to try something like this. Someday sooner I'll have a liquid collection system.

Thanks for showing how easy and practical it is.