10-08-2024, 04:25 PM
Mea culpa...looks like I have egg on my face (or maybe tofu?)
I read "tofu block" and thought it humorously fit the shape of the structure, not knowing the vernacular of foundations...that is, I presume cinder block, which I can imagine is not suitable here? (As opposed to slab or post-and-pier.) My bad! It's all good. Live and learn.
As to dumping sewage down lava tubes, as I have only just recently learned that is pretty much what passes as cesspools here and has for many, many years, that is absolutely deplorable; whether from a bucket or otherwise...given so many lava tubes are themselves burial sites or lead to burial sites. Just sickening.
I don't find septic tanks much better, at their base. Combining anything and everything into a fetid sludge-pool and hoping it somehow magically filters its way thru mostly solid lava rock and is pure and clean? I say doubtful...it is all still ending up in the environment, and ultimately the water.
As I have read, properly designed dry toilets should either use constructed and maintained compost heap/pile systems, or multiple curing buckets, as described in "The Humanure Handbook". Vermiculture is also very effective at speeding up the process.
Properly done, in time these produce compost, which is 100% safe to use on plants.
Conversely, in exactly the same way baby and adult diapers (and even litter boxes and poo bags) are disposed of *properly*, waste can be sealed in a bag and disposed of with garbage. If you hear, "You can't throw *that* at the transfer station!" If they think that, where do they think all the diapers and Depends are going? There is no poop fairy for humans any more than there is for dogs...it doesn't just vanish.
It's true...this is how I spend a lot of my time...learning about alternative living styles and designs, and alternative waste systems.
Think I've talked my own ear off in this reply as well as a few others here...sorry!
I'm probably also not a lot of fun at parties. Most would say I talk a lotta shit. :-D
Ok, gotta go! ;-) ...make coffee, that is!
I read "tofu block" and thought it humorously fit the shape of the structure, not knowing the vernacular of foundations...that is, I presume cinder block, which I can imagine is not suitable here? (As opposed to slab or post-and-pier.) My bad! It's all good. Live and learn.
As to dumping sewage down lava tubes, as I have only just recently learned that is pretty much what passes as cesspools here and has for many, many years, that is absolutely deplorable; whether from a bucket or otherwise...given so many lava tubes are themselves burial sites or lead to burial sites. Just sickening.
I don't find septic tanks much better, at their base. Combining anything and everything into a fetid sludge-pool and hoping it somehow magically filters its way thru mostly solid lava rock and is pure and clean? I say doubtful...it is all still ending up in the environment, and ultimately the water.
As I have read, properly designed dry toilets should either use constructed and maintained compost heap/pile systems, or multiple curing buckets, as described in "The Humanure Handbook". Vermiculture is also very effective at speeding up the process.
Properly done, in time these produce compost, which is 100% safe to use on plants.
Conversely, in exactly the same way baby and adult diapers (and even litter boxes and poo bags) are disposed of *properly*, waste can be sealed in a bag and disposed of with garbage. If you hear, "You can't throw *that* at the transfer station!" If they think that, where do they think all the diapers and Depends are going? There is no poop fairy for humans any more than there is for dogs...it doesn't just vanish.
It's true...this is how I spend a lot of my time...learning about alternative living styles and designs, and alternative waste systems.
Think I've talked my own ear off in this reply as well as a few others here...sorry!
I'm probably also not a lot of fun at parties. Most would say I talk a lotta shit. :-D
Ok, gotta go! ;-) ...make coffee, that is!