Everyone pees and poos, yet for the most part it is a private, secret, and DISGUSTING part of everyday life!
Here in the GOE, it is an honored part of daily life!
We recognize that sustainability is important, and starting with the basics is the best way to begin, so we are sharing our 100% free and SUPER sustainable decomposing toilet aka "New Paradigm Potty".
Even if you don't begin to value and utilize your "waste", then you can at least understand how and why it is so important and how easy it can be. It doesn't get any more basic than pee and poo!
Decomposing toilets are extremely important! Everyone pees and poos,
and in civilized countries not only is 99.9% of that just being wasted,
but money is actually spent to waste it--
while contaminating clean water in the process!
On the other hand, we not only save the money and water, but we also compost that pee and poo into perfect soil which we can then use to grow food.
Our New Paradigm Potty is made of 100% free, salvaged materials that is actually SAVED from the TRASH!
We have 2 stalls in our potty so that if someone has to go and someone else is still going there can be relief!
The main frame of the potty is made of old fence panels, and the doors are salvaged trash doors.
Each stall has 2 "toilets", a #1 for Pee and #2 for Poo!
We have nice hand painted instructions on the inside of each door so that anyone new can do their business properly. Even the toilet seats are salvaged from the trash.
We have nice photos (taken by @quinneaker and @everlove) in salvaged frames to decorate the potty, so there is something nice to look at while having a sit.
When you are done, a wipe is probably in order. We don't buy anything (especially disposables!), so we use the best materials we can find from waste resources.....We have found that phone book paper is an excellent choice that works and feels better if it's a bit moist! The IRS tax code manual was another primo option we had on hand.
Then we cover it with sawdust, which we of course saved from the landfill as well.
All of this goes into the bucket which is emptied daily into our isolated pee and poo waste composting site. After 6 months to a year, the soil is super nutritious for plants and also safe enough to put in your mouth without any danger!
This is one of many ways we save over 350,000 pounds of waste a year and operate at an almost unprecedented negative zero carbon footprint!
Not only do we save all this waste, but that waste is then turned into a valuable resource on top of it! This is a double negative carbon footprint alchemy!
Visionary and humanitarian example @quinneaker likes to say "we turn shit into gold", and this could be literal. If we were to sell all the compost we made at market value of $5 a pound, we would only have to sell about 250 lbs of POO to buy one oz of GOLD! Shit FTW!!!
We hope you're inspired to consider how your daily functions can add value to the world too!
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