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Dealing with shit 15-Aug-2007 At 10:01:25 AM climberman

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These guys: http://www.biolytix.com/index.php reportedly do well with high temp variance, high use variance systems. The big challenges for the composting toilet are:

high variance in use - ie, not even over time;
input of inappropriate chemicals (grey nomads emptying their chemical dunnies into them);
high temp variations (the glen might go from 30+ to -3 with snow over the year).

The variations affect the composting buglets - they get swamped, dried out, killed, or otherwise rendered inoperable by these variations. Many public composting toilets still require a separate set of settlement tanks, and a de-watering/irrigations setup. That's cool for roadside paddocks but less cool for the Glen, not merely environmentally but in terms of physical space capacity. Sydney drinks water from the Glen via the Coxs, I think.

Almost all dunnies in public areas away from sight tend to get vandalised by moronic poo-wiping teenagers or our friends the needle-freaks, so need to be visited almost daily for checking and cleaning. It's a bloomin big cost.

A carpark based pit toilet with suck-truck access and capacity for a two-week period of high use would best suit the Glen. Smaller physical footprint, less chance of leaching, less maintenance, less ongoing weather issues, would tie in well with the current system on the Plateau possibly, too. With the current Blue Mts sewer upgrade programme it may even be possible to connect the thing to the sewer system. Well, that's what I think.