Friday, May 17, 2024

Nature Calls: MycoToilet being Launched!! six weeks pilot program this summer

 https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/graduateresearch/42591/items/1.0442284

I'll be launching my own Oyster sawdust spawn composting toilet extravaganza also!!

 Nature Calls : Nutrient Cycling at the UBC Botanical Garden Polovina, Lorena

Abstract

How can we see waste as a valuable resource? Similar to how fungi break down waste to return nutrients to the ground, composting toilets break down human waste to create valuable soil. Often these spaces are unpleasant and utilitarian in their design approach. The thesis designs an enclosure for MycoToilet, a 6-week pilot demonstration at the UBC Botanical Garden in Summer 2024. It combines existing technologies with new materials to convert human waste to valuable soil products that can be used at the UBC Botanical Garden. Architecture plays the role of enhancing the user experience through a carefully detailed enclosure that closes the loop on waste through the material selection, composting process, and enclosure design. The idiosyncratic form of the composting toilet combines biogenic materials like wood framing and canvas fabric to reflect the temporal nature of the project and create an experience that is familiar yet different, for an architecture that is truly regenerative and engages with broader ecological cycles at various scales.

 pdf link

More on the MycoToilet origins 

I first posted this last Fall - and then I emailed the Professor who originally launched this project...

 Since I already grow Shiitake and started growing Winecap Mushrooms - adding Oysters to my farm will be awesome - especially if the Oysters double as composting toilets and also insulation building material and bioremediation of oil-based waste!!

We have a Lindstrom town nearby!!

MycoToilet research results:

https://www.toilettech.com/conveyor-toilet

Wow they're using a Foot-Powered Conveyor Toilet!!!

 








 

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