Humus Toalett
När jag första gången läste "The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure" av Joseph C. Jenkins fick jag lära mig hur otroligt konstig vi lever idag. Inget jag tidigare direkt tänkt på. Tror jag skrivit om det förr (eller så är det inte publicerat).. Att det ganska sjukt hur vi förorenar rent vatten (en bristvara på många ställen), spolar och hoppas någon annan tar hand om vår avföring. Visst är det komfortabelt, men komfort är ibland överskattat.
Om man vet hur svårt det är att göra rent vatten skulle vi nog tänka både en och två gånger innan vi skita ner det. Vi är så bortskämda, och de flesta av oss lever så onaturligt. Så långt från naturen.Vi låter något industriellt avloppsverk hantera det istället. Ibland känns det som människan har tappat fotfästet.
Den goda nyheten är dock att du med rätt val och små ekonomiska medel kan få en toalett och avloppslösning som är mer miljövänlig än kommunalt avlopp (där möjligheten att tillvarata näringsämnen i urin och fekalier förloras)!
"A toilet that makes gardens." - Joseph Jenkins
I mitt sökande efter "komposttoaletter" (en vanlig benämning som är lite missvissande), torrtoaletter är mer rätt så hittade jag "The Simple Humus Toilet".
Istället för sågspån som material till kompost toaletten använder man hummus jord (båda är kolrika).
"Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler" - Albert Einstein
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Albert Einstein
Thomas Lauterbach (med i videon nedan) om att gå till sitt utedass: "I simply prefer my walk into the garden amongst the flowers, plants, bees and birds to the sweet little humus toilet out house to a sterile conventional toilet we are so used to! And as you rightly point out, we are used to 'flush it all away' and leave the problems our human waste causes to others. It's a kind of mindset which is hard to change for most people, unfortunately.
But I think more people start thinking about their actions in regards to the environment. The SIMPLE HUMUS TOILET set up and handled correctly is a safe and enjoyable way to deal with our most elementary needs. No water wasted and always a 'gesture' of making peace with nature."
I den här videon finns genial enkelhet! Den bästa jag funnit och bygger på Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Humus toilet. Thomas Lauterbach berättar:
Nedan bild på Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Humus toilet.
Denna typ bygger även de svenska toaletterna: Clivus, Mull-Toa, Mullbänk, Multrum.
Här ser ni Friedensreich Hundertwasser som förövrigt har intressanta texter, varav ni kan finna texten "Pip" kultur - den heliga "pip". Se den engelska varianten nedan. Han har även designat en allmän toalett; Hundertwasser Toilets - Kawakawa projektet (New Zealand). (mycket vacker) Hundertwasser trodde på mänsklig arkitekturdesign i harmoni med naturen. Han har designat många fina hus med bland annat flaskor som fönster. Lite åt Gaudihållet. Han dog år 2000, men hans tankar, konst och idéer lever vidare än idag. En tänkare som influerat oss på många sätt.
"Nature is my teacher, is my master." - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PmONVJyVsI
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| Bilden från hundertwassers hemsida: http://hundertwasser.com/oeuvre/73-applied-art/3177-the-humus-toilet |
Excerpt from the manifesto « Scheißkultur. Die heilige Scheiße » (Shit Culture – The Holy Shit)
"Vegetation needed millions of years to cover the sludge, the toxic substances, with a layer of humus, a layer of vegetation and a layer of oxygen, so that man may live on earth.
And this ungrateful man brings back to light these same poisonous substances that had been covered through long and tedious cosmic labour. By the misdeed of irresponsible man, the end of the world will be like the beginning of times. We are committing suicide. Our cities are cancerous ulcers. This is clearly visible from above. We do not eat what grows in our own country, but import our food from far away, from Africa, America, China and New Zealand. We do not keep our shit for ourselves. It is washed far away, polluting rivers, lakes and seas, or it is sent to highly complex and costly purification plants, seldom to centralised composting factories. Or it is destroyed. Our shit never returns to our fields and never returns there where our food came from. The cycle from food to shit is working. The cycle from shit to food has been broken.
We have a misconception of our waste.
Every time we flush the toilet, thinking it a hygienic action, we violate cosmic law. For in truth it is a godless deed, a wanton act of death. When we go to the toilet, lock ourselves in and flush away our shit, we end it all. Why are we ashamed? What are we afraid of? That which actually happens to our shit afterwards is something we repulse, like death. The toilet hole seems to us like the gateway to death: we want to get away as fast as we can, forget the decay and putrefaction. But we are quite wrong. It is with shit that life first begins. Shit is much more important than food. Food only nourishes mankind that increases in quantity, diminishes in quality and has become a deadly threat to the Earth, a deadly threat to vegetation, the animal world, water, air, the humus layer.
Shit is the building block of our resurrection.
As far back as man can remember, he has sought immortality. Man wants to have a soul. Shit is our soul. Shit enables us to survive. Shit makes us immortal. Why are we afraid of death? Whomever uses a humus toilet is not afraid of death, for our shit makes future life and our regeneration possible. If we fail to value our shit and turn it into humus to the glory of God and the world, we lose our right to be present on this Earth.
In the name of false hygienic laws, we lose our cosmic substance, we lose our regeneration. Filth is life. Sterile cleanliness is death. (Editorial comment: all disinfectants are biocides, lifekillers.) Thou shalt not kill, and yet we sterilize all life with poison and a layer of concrete. This is murder. Man is just a tube. On the one side he puts things in, on the other side they come out again, more or less digested. The mouth is at the front, the anus at the back. Why? It should be the other way around. Why is eating positive? Why is shit negative? What comes out of us is not waste, but the material from which the world is made, our gold, our blood. We bleed to death, our civilization is bleeding to death. Our earth is bleeding to death by the insane interruption of the cycle. Whomever bleeds simply loses blood. If the blood is not replaced with new blood, he will bleed to death.
Freud was right when he said, in his interpretation of dreams, that shit is a synonym for gold. We must now realize that it is not just a dream, but a reality. When Passolini had actors eat shit in a film, it was a symbol of the continuation of the cycle, a desperate short cut. We must devote the same love, time and attention to what comes out from « behind » as to what enters « in front ». The same ceremony as for meals, with table-laying, knives, forks and spoons, chopsticks, silver cutlery and candle-light. We say grace before and after meals. No one says grace when they shit. We thank God for our daily bread, which comes from the Earth. But we do not pray that our shit becomes earth again.
Waste is beautiful. The sorting and reintegration of waste is a joyous activity, an activity that takes place not in cellars and backyards, on dung-heaps and in toilets, but there where we dwell, where there is light and sunshine: in our living rooms, in our parlours.
There is no such thing as waste. Waste does not exist.
The humus toilet is a status symbol. We have the privilege of being witnesses, with the help of our own wisdom, to the transformation of our own waste, our own shit into humus; just as a tree grows and the harvest ripens. At home with us, as if it were our own child. Homo – humus – humanitas, three fateful words with the same origin. Humus is true black gold. Humus has a good smell. The fragrance of humus is holy and closer to God than that of incense.
Anyone who walks in the woods after the rain knows its smell. Of course it is a bit shocking when the waste bin is placed in the centre of our apartment and that the humus toilet becomes the seat of honour, the most beautiful place. But this is precisely the about-turn that our society, our civilization must now make if it is to survive. The smell of humus is the smell of God, the smell of resurrection, the smell of immortality."
By Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Algajola, Venice, New-Zealand, 1979-1980
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"sätt en tunna under nr 2, ta ut tunnan genom bakväggen, sätt på lock och förvara i 2 år. Sen är det fin mull till blommor och prydnadsbuskar/träd." - Susanne L
Ska du äta det som du odlar ska du varmkompostera för att vara säker på att ta död på farliga bakterier etc.
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Flaskan innehåller 10 ml EM, + 10 ml socker/honung 0 500 ml vatten.
