Never Compost Waste! A minute with the Compost Curmudgeon.

I love you Joe!!!! My husband and I have been actively composting our humanure since the year 2000 thanks to you! We have the best damn compost (next to yours) and our plants love it! Our chickens are always trying to dig in the finished compost too.....getting the bugs I imagine once I heap the pile on the ground. I cover it with tarps but they are always tearing into them. We generate so much compost.....never have to buy it again for the rest of our lives!!! Thanks so much. I have shared your book with many other people and bought extra copies to give away.

I love your videos, Joe. You've taught me so much 👍👍

I collect hundreds of bags and garbage can loads of yard "waste" from my neighbors for my compost pile every year. If it wasn't "waste" to them, they wouldn't let me take it for free. I don't think the problem is the word people use to describe something - the problem is how they actually treat it. When people treat something as a mere nuisance to be discarded, it is "waste" to them. The idea that changing the way people speak changes the way they believe is the underlying fallacy of political correctness. Changing speech without changing the underlying beliefs doesn't make the beliefs go away - they just re-emerge in the form of a Donald Trump. In other words, don't reverse cause and effect. Speech follows beliefs and attitudes, it doesn't lead them.

Alright already! Semantics is your pet peeve, I get it!... ; ) BUT although I totally get what you intend to get across - the only thing is it is DRAINING to listen to you go on and on with that rant... we are not dense...
PLEASE just keep showing us how to compost our "body droppings and kitchen scraps" into "humanure" and soil enriching compost... and I sincerely THANK YOU for all your wisdom! You are an invaluable resource for the world... : )

This is a good idea. I propose changing the term, from "human waste" to "HUMAN PRODUCT". Thus we are creating rich soils, from human product or produce. Eating, processing, and generating soil, is a valuable and creative production.

How about 'Soil Food" instead of "waste"?

Okay okay it's not called waste

hey please can I have your Email Adress I'm in Uganda

What if one Burns the humanure then composts it? Will that work without polluting? Shalom

Im trying to convert from water toilet to compost toilet. It's a taboo subjects for my fiance. I need to convince him and a neighbor because we don't have property to put it on.

We need people to state the obvious. Thanks for being that guy

I even go to the neighbors and get their deposits. Perfect for my 400 sq foot hole i need to fill in so that I can have an orchard by the time I am 50

I’m going to find your book. Hopefully on audio since I’m blind. I also want to install my garden tub but I want to capture the water in a container. Still trying to figure that out in my head.

could I use big pieces of cardboard ? also, can I use coal ashes ?

I hear you Joe! I take food waste from where it WOULD go to a landfill or incinerator, cycle it home, bung it in one of my many compost systems, and turn it into something of value. But, when I initially set eyes on it, it was destined to be waste. (I'm talking the greengrocer's bin I service!)

The only waste that comes out of my compost systems ar those irritating plastic labels, glue strips from cardboard boxes, and other odds and ends I call 'contraries'. These are riddled out and go in my bin.

Life is always more complex than can go into a 90 second video, eh?

I agree!!

One of the most profound things I have heard is the Earth wastes Nothing. Everything and everyone that has ever been or will be, will be recycled.

Hi Joe, Your book, The Humanure Handbook, 4th Edition, really opened my eyes to composting. Thank you. I have a quick question for you though. My compost, which is currently using kitchen scraps and all my urine (for nitrogen), is not getting up to temperature, smells a bit in hot weather, and is filled with what looks like Pupa (suspect maggots). Adding a cover in the form of a 2x4 ft coffee bag made of jute, and watering with 4 gallons of urine per week helped a lot from the anaerobic compost I was doing in the past. Question is, how to get it up to 100 degrees F rather than the 80 degree F it is been at for the last 4 months?

You need to learn the definition of the word semantics. STFU

Yes! Words have meaning. People should pay attention. Thanks for all your great, practical, helpful information and understanding and use of language!