Trends in Composting

Getting Hooked
When I get hooked on something, I pretty much research the heck out of it. That’s been the case with the practice of composting and my new composting toilet that I’ve been using from OGO Toilet in Ohio. My RV buddies laugh when I write about toilets, but I’m not the one putting gloves on to empty my black water tank while breathing in the wafting fumes of their own do-do.

If I think about it, in my Boy Scout days, we dug our latrines and sprinkled dirt on it for the next guy to use. Obviously, composting has improved in methods and material used. I doubt hauling a pile of dirt in my RV will ever happen, but the Coconut coir (the fluffy ground husk of the coconut) is light and does the trick very well. When you separate urine, and the other, there typically is little smell in the toilet, thus allowing you to use it 25–30 times before emptying it.

Wasting Water
If you ponder that for a moment, be reminded that you use perfectly good drinking water to flush your RV or home toilet. When people are talking about climate change, sustainable resources and Eco-mindedness constantly being drilled into our heads, why aren’t we treating our human waste like other organic material?

I spend a lot of time putting my fallen leaves and yard refuse in our green bin, household waste in there too, but none of…