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Composting Memories from MOTHER: Project Privy

By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors, January/February 1984

Readers, to mark our 50th anniversary as a magazine, we’ll be reprinting some of the more colorful stories from our archives in upcoming issues. Have you built your own ingenious compost toilet? Tell us about it at Letters@MOTHEREARTHNEWS.com. — MOTHER

What’s the best alternative available to the growing number of environmentally minded folks who are hunting for a convenient, economical way to dispose of human waste? That’s the question Eco-Village staffer Jay Herndon asked when he assigned himself to Project Privy.

Herndon saw almost immediately that the sensible choice

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