Composting Toilet Maintenance: Changing Barrels

We hope you're just as excited about Composting Toilet maintenance as Catlow Shipek, Technical and Policy Director, is! In this video, he'll show you what to do when one of your barrels is full so you can keep on composting. #StewardInPlace #CompostingToilets

[@sjostromalandnet]

Is it really safe to place in garden after 4 months? Other videos have recommended 2 years.

[@justinkase1413]

How do you empty it ? Seems like it would be heavy to lift

[@catlowshipek7720]

No lifting required. The humanure composts down to fill about the bottom 1/3 of a barrel. With a spade shovel it is easy to shovel out. Takes me 5min or less to shovel.

[@ImASurvivorNThriver]

Good stuff! Do you sell this lid with the pipes and glass configuration so that I could replicate this system at home??? If you don't sell it, would you mind sharing the item list so that I could get everything from the hardware store??? Thank you for sharing this.

[@catlowshipek7720]

Sure thing! Option A: watershedmg.org/services/home/composting-toilet-kit or Option B: www.omick.net/composting_toilets/barrel_toilet.htm

[@BigRigRich]

Can you explain the Irvine diversion system ?

[@catlowshipek7720]

And, we also offer a Composting Toilet Systems field study now virtually! Upcoming sessions can be found here: watershedmg.org/event