05-05-2014, 10:27 PM
A real composting toilet uses some form of substrate, such as peat moss, along with a microbial amendment which helps to break down the waste materials in a healthy manner.
The above mentioned method is preferable to a plain cesspool which leaches untreated sewage directly into the substrate, even though the resultant percolation through the ground filters the sewage to some degree.
Just look at what's happening off the leeward shores of Maui & Hawai'i.
Algal bloom, reef die-off, etc...
All the big hotels discharge sewage, treated or not, into the ocean in front of the hotels, even if the sewage outfall is a long ways out. Also, the sewage effluent is being applied to the golf courses, which eventually runs off into the nearby ocean.
I would rather see a properly maintained composting toilet than the typical cesspool, because the cesspool, when multiplied by the numbers we see today, is adding too much waste to our fragile aquifer.
This ties into the toxic waste spills on Mauna Kea, which is the most sacred place in the entire Pacific ocean, as well as the highest point in the aquifer on this island.
No matter what you pollute our island with, this pollution reaches our basal lens aquifer, as well as our sea shores.
It's not rocket science.
The above mentioned method is preferable to a plain cesspool which leaches untreated sewage directly into the substrate, even though the resultant percolation through the ground filters the sewage to some degree.
Just look at what's happening off the leeward shores of Maui & Hawai'i.
Algal bloom, reef die-off, etc...
All the big hotels discharge sewage, treated or not, into the ocean in front of the hotels, even if the sewage outfall is a long ways out. Also, the sewage effluent is being applied to the golf courses, which eventually runs off into the nearby ocean.
I would rather see a properly maintained composting toilet than the typical cesspool, because the cesspool, when multiplied by the numbers we see today, is adding too much waste to our fragile aquifer.
This ties into the toxic waste spills on Mauna Kea, which is the most sacred place in the entire Pacific ocean, as well as the highest point in the aquifer on this island.
No matter what you pollute our island with, this pollution reaches our basal lens aquifer, as well as our sea shores.
It's not rocket science.
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"Life is labor, and all that is good in life comes from that labor..."