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--- 199701 [2016/12/06 21:44] – [The Big Dipper Blocks The Yahoos of Yalwal] joan
+++ 199701 [2016/12/06 21:46] – [The Dinkum Dunny's Day is Done or The Case for the Composting Clivus!] joan
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-Notice from Walks Secretary\\
+**Notice from Walks Secretary**\\
 Just two days after bulk posting the 63 "Christmas / Thank You" cards to leaders who had contributed to the Walks Program for 1996, 1 received a note from the St Leonards mail centre advising me that I had posted 55 articles "UNDERPAID"!!
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 Firstly a composting toilet requires no water thereby avoiding the cost of water/sewerage connection. The Clivus operates without any detectable odour, there are no chemicals- involved and few mechanical components to break down.
-Secondly, all organic Material goes into it - toilet paper, paper towels, grease and fat, leaves and sawdust - these aid the decomposition process by lightening the composting pile to allow air penetration, and by supplying carbon for organisms in the compost to convert nitrogen and other nutrients to stable forms, and to develop heat to evaporate liquid waste.
+Secondly, all organic material goes into it - toilet paper, paper towels, grease and fat, leaves and sawdust - these aid the decomposition process by lightening the composting pile to allow air penetration, and by supplying carbon for organisms in the compost to convert nitrogen and other nutrients to stable forms, and to develop heat to evaporate liquid waste.
 Thirdly maintenance is minimal. Clivus Multrum means "sloping compost room" (Swedish) the inclined bottom, internal baffles and air channels control air flow through the organic material. As this material dries, its weight