A Different Kind of Septic System Springfield Vermont Series Part 1 of 2

A Different kind of Septic System Springfield Vermont Series Part 1 of 2, If your using or you have read the main series, thalking about using a Composting Toilet System. You just my be tihnking, what do you do with the end-produci of it. You'll find the finished humus has the consistency of leaves that have been compoted, and should have an earthy smell to it, but not offensive.

You'll want to check the rules of your State, seen that most States do require sending it to a treatment facility or burying it under at least 12 inches of soil, it idealy best to put it within the root zone of non-edible plants that can use the nutrients. There has been many users have placed the composted material out side in a pile to finish composting, and add more mulch and yard waste.

A Different kind of Septic System Springfield Vermont Series Part 1 of 2, some composting toilet owner operators use their compost on their edible vegetable gardens.

If no one in your family is sick who used the composting toilet, it's very unlikely that pathogens will be a problem. But its a better rule of thumb not to use it on edibles. There sure are plenty of non-edible plants in any garden that you have, that sure will be mighty grateful for the compost.

A Different kind of Septic Systic Springfield Vermont Series Part 1 of 2, Now if any leachate is drained from composters, it must by law, either be disposed of in a septic tank, or removed by a septage hauler, or taken to a treatment plant for further treatment. Some innovative systems combine it with graywater for use in subsurace irrigation of their plants.

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