Create a composting area.
Include a common compost area.
Uppermost in most minds is the need to empty the dry toilet and carry its content to the compost area ["At the beginning, it's just a bit weird, everybody laughs, but after a while, it just becomes normal" H6].
"Guess where it ended up?" Peter Torchio, a supervisor at the landfill, which opened in 1948 and is to be closed in January 2002, boarded the bus inside the gates and guided the students through the compost area, the docks where barges of garbage were being unloaded, and up around the landfill's grassy mesas.
They are equipped with storage area for raw wastes and with matured compost area, while the maturing area and the fermentation area are generally confused.
When we questioned the users as to what was most visible in resource management, they mostly focalized on the boats ["the boats of course on land!" (H7)] and the compost area where waste from the dry toilets is collected [ you can see these big beans" (H3)].
Common to many of these new villages could be a child-care facility and play area, an organic garden, a common house for community meetings, celebrations, and regular meals together, a recycling and composting area, an open space, and a crafts and shop area.
Outdoor compost areas can be simple piles, or you can build a wood open-sided bin, or use a wire mesh bin.
Outside you'll find a canvas-covered kitchen/dining area, a compost toilet and woodland play area as well as foraging pigs, free-range chickens (wake up to fresh eggs every morning) and Pepito, the owners' horse.
Bantar Gebang composting area occupies 20,000 m2 out of the 110-ha waste management area.
