we get 100% recycled T.P. - from The Field Day brand owned by our supplier, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) - sells at cooperatives! Their website doesn't even work. hahaha. It's the distributor brand. Probably made in Vernon California at one of the paper mills...
our original agriculture was all based on humanure composting. I visited the most traditional Berber village in Morocco in 1997 and for probably 8,000 years they lived from humanure composting to grow food in the desert mountains. Ecological sanitation is actually promoted by the U.N. but it goes against sanitation since Roman Imperial times of shallow street sewers. People are vastly impressed by Roman architecture with the aqueducts but they had to be built since Rome polluted its drinking water. So an ecologist ph.d. went to Haiti to set up SOIL - based on the John Jenkins thermophilic humanure composting - as a community business. They collect the 5 gallon buckets - no water is used. As far as the toilet paper - you need 20 times more carbon than nitrogen for composting. But if you do humanure composting you are saving gallons of ground water needed for flushing.
The problem is the international building code does not allow composting of humanure. So there's been a few exceptions in the U.S. - an ecovillage in Portland Oregon was given a waiver to do humanure composting. I think a county or township in California also allows it. Most of these places require that you already have a septic system installed though - which requires having the plumbing for "facilities" as a "residence" as per international building code - or hooked up to the sewer system.
Some cities then create fertilizer from the sewage - and if you do a thermophilic process - actually they basically just cook the stuff and power the cooking from biogas produced by the sewage. My own city of 300,000 does that and offers it as free compost for farmers south of the metro area - and it's EPA class A biosolids - meaning it is not mixed with industrial waste and also the PFAS are destroyed by the cooking process - it creates pellets of humanure. There's a slight smell when they compost into the soil again. hahaha.
Actual compost does not smell though. My secret is to NOT use structures in the first place. Based on code you can compost if you are in a shelter as a tent campsite. So just live in a tent - and ironically the people who lived here tens of thousands of years - the indigenous people - are not considered "sovereign" since they did not "improve" the land with structures.
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