RE: An Introduction to Humanure: Let's Talk about Poop
I read about a system in the book Solviva where she plumbed her upstairs toilet sewage line to dump into a twin box worm bin outside on the side of her house. The worms converted the solids to vermicompost and there was a drain for the liquids which led into a 3 stage riparian bio-filtering system. Her goal was to experiment and devise a system which would eliminate (no pun) the barrier to entry of carrying full buckets outside that most people have a tough time getting past. Apparently it was so effective, she never had to switch the system over to the second bin (while the worms worked on composting down the first) because it was so efficient, it never filled up! Her downstairs toilet was still a composting bucket. It's not a perfect system but interesting and inspiring!
Woah~~~ incredibly cool & natural design! I have some friends who use systems like the clivus moltrum for indoor use, but worms with liquid valve! Incredibly inspiring. We have a ton of soldier fly larvae in our system and I suppose those could be used too! Their squiggling is noisy tho and I love worms more :) thanks for the comment.
HAHA nothing like hearing the sound of squiggling larvae below you :P Actually I don't know what that sounds like but I'm imagining it.
It can get Pretty rowdy in there, they make a ruckus ! Looking to more efficiently use them next year, growing them for chicken fodder (obviously not in our humanure system though)