Gold bucket

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Bucket toilet in Mongolia (2010)

Gold bucket is a colloquial term for large-volume buckets or barrels , which at the beginning of the 20th century were pushed under the toilet to collect faeces and which were exchanged for empty containers by mostly unskilled workers in a fixed cycle. The containers filled with feces were taken to factories for processing. By working up with sulfuric acid , a fertilizer could be produced that produced an unpleasant odor. The production of artificial fertilizers was still under construction at the beginning of the 20th century and the prices were very high, since guano and saltpeter had to be costly transported from Chile to Europe by sailing ships . The production of domestic fertilizer from faeces, which one got for free, promised a lucrative business due to the higher marketability, whereby the faeces buckets were colloquially "gold plated".

The Viva con Agua eV - development policy non-profit organization called "Goldeimer gGmbH" has an organization for mobile compost sanitary facilities at music festivals and the like. Ä. founded.

literature

  • Wolfgang Berger, Claudia Lorenz-Ladener (ed.): Compost toilets. Sanitary engineering without water. Ökobuch-Verlag, Staufen (Breisgau) 2008, ISBN 978-3-936896-16-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Hupp: When the refugees came to Kiel: a structure of images and scenes of vivid memories of years of hunger and integration . Husum Verlag, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-932-4 , p. 80, 115–116 (181 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Gerhard Paleit: Year 1922: we believe in leaders, people and our country . G. Paleit, Bad Berleburg 2001, ISBN 3-8311-2100-1 , p. 103 (131 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Ernst Schlüter: Husum: between revolution and seizure of power: from the history of the city of Husum from 1918 to 1933 . Schleswiger Druck- und Verlagshaus, Schleswig 1983, ISBN 3-88242-080-4 , p. 38–39 (128 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ see literature "Wolfgang Berger, ..."
  5. ↑ Online (PDF; 161 kB) .

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