For years I’ve been taking a pee jug along when I go camping. I buy a 2-gallon jug of kitty litter and keep the nice wide-mouth jug it comes in. They’re firm plastic and have a nice handle. I keep one right outside my tent for midnight pees. Way easier than hoofing all the way to the bathrooms or whatever.

This time we actually brought the pee back and added it to the compost pile! It’s like two of my hobbies finally came together after years. Huzzah!

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I see not everyone in this composting community knows about compost and pee yet. Sorry, it was not only widely known on /r/composting but almost continually celebrated. I forgot anyone still thought “eww yucky!”

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I may not have clarified that the kitty litter is not kept in the pee jug. We have cats and just put it to use.

      What about pee+biochar = carbon locked away forever?

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Interesting - I would not have guessed that would work. I don’t totally understand the chemistry of pee stink. But it seems to develop over time. It sounds like in your rig the pee only passed through the char right after urination. It didn’t smell a day after that?

            • scarabic@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Ah I see! Well you must have been the hero of the hour, giving the ladies a way to pee that wasn’t even gross!

                • scarabic@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  If it’s “permanently locked carbon” then that would imply it’s not available for chemical reactions. And so I don’t see how it can be the browns in your compost. Doesn’t it have to be bioavailable to be composted? If it’s available for reactions, it isn’t permanently sequestered, right?