Humanure is it a viable option?

[eeyore]

I started to derail another good thread so i thought this is an important enough topic to deserve it's own thread.

This is a pretty good article about the subject, i have always been a proponent of saw dust toilets, since i raised goats. In the goat shed (i made it movable), i spread saw dust in the bottom, never had a smell problem ever.

[QUOTE]Humanure: the end of sewage as we know it?

For some eco-pioneers, solving the sludge problem means getting their hands dirty, writes Catherine Price from Grist, part of the Guardian Environment Network
Laura Allen, a 33-year-old teacher from Oakland, California, has a famous toilet. To be honest, it's actually a box, covered in decorative ceramic tiles, sitting on the cement floor of her bathroom like a throne. No pipes lead to or from it; instead, a bucket full of shavings from a local wood shop rests on the box next to the seat with a note instructing users to add a scoopful after making their "deposit." Essentially an indoor outhouse, it's a composting toilet, a sewerless system that Allen uses to collect her household's excrement and transform it into a rich brown material known to fans as "humanure."

Allen is a founding member of an activist group devoted to the end of sewage as we know it. Her toilet recently made an appearance in the Los Angeles Times

[Klayton]

I too have read up on the wood shaving toilets. =)

But as I stated in the other thread, you must compost it long enough to kill any pathogens/bacteria from the human depositer. In the article you posted, she composts it for a year.
I would still use the set up I read about in the past where they used a metal compost barrel painted black to absorb as much heat from the sun to aid the composting and to kill the pathogens, before using it for fertilizer. Even then, I would only use it on fruit trees and not in the garden where the chance of direct contact is too risky. But hey, I play it safe. =)