Composting Toilets: From Waste Stream to Resource River

Reader Contribution by Anneli Carter-Sundqvist
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Making our own compost is not only a way to meet our need of fertilizer, it’s also a way to redirect the garden scraps, chicken manure, leaves and grass cuttings from the waste stream to the resource river. Anything left in a state unfit for reuse – whether it’s trash in the bin or material from around the homestead – is waste and the accumulation is a dead end path. A resource is something valuable and useful and a well managed, sustainable resource works in a circular fashion and can be reused, over and over with little or no loss or additional input. Vegetable scraps that is turned to compost that is brought back to the garden to grow new vegetables is a very straight forward example of such a resource. Dead trees on the forest floor that decay and provide nutrients for new trees is another example whereas dead trees piled together and burned is turned into waste – since that’s where the path ends.

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