6 slightly used toilet seats with hardware
One plastic motor oil bucket
3 storage bins
2 storage bin lids
A bit of rope
A rotting wicker basket (to transport said toilet seats)
With the exception of the handle on the bucket and maybe a few screws in the seats, every item today is a big solid piece of plastic. The six toilet seats were attached to toilets, of all things. Actually, there were about a dozen toilets altogether, but not all of the seats survived being thrown about. Most of the commodes were damaged and too heavy for me to carry (I'll explain what happened to them in a later post), so I salvaged the good seats and the hardware from the broken seats.
I have been working on a plan for a bank of compost toilets that I would like to build. We may be able to set up a campground near Aji beach (on the other side of the island) later this year. Hopefully, that will help attract more visitors to the island. If they do come, then they will need facilities too. And building and connecting regular pit or flush toilets to the mains would be expensive and pointless because all of the human waste from the island either gets hauled off the island by a honeysucker truck or ends up out in the ocean. If we build a smart compost toilet, it will handle everyone's poop and recycle the nutrients back to the environment, and save it from going places it shouldn't.
Human waste is something that we don't often think about; where it goes, what happens to it, is there any inherent value in it, etc. Most waste has the potential to be useful and utilizable by something else if it is put into a different situation. Hopefully, over the course of the next month, I will be able to find ways to utilize more of the stuff I find scattered about our island.
In the end, you could say this post is full of shit. And, you would be right!!!