Within the compartment of the composting toilet lives a
population of orb weaver spiders. These spiders are huge, and are generally the
stuff of nightmares, particularly when you have to use the toilet in the middle of the night, and are waving around a harsh blue LED light to show the way, and you suddenly discover that they are everywhere around your head.
However, the spiders tend to withdraw at certain times of the day, especially in the morning, so if you have a regular bowel movement schedule that angles towards morning duty, you're good. The spiders eat the flies, which tend to gather at the toilet. Too
many flies and you also have the stuff of nightmares, or at least you have a constant nuisance.
Making choices in this way - allowing the spiders to stick around for instance - alters the immediate environment, sometimes in dramatic ways. There are also different ways to handle bodily wastes. The point is that there are other ways to alter the environment as a living thing, to make that environment more amenable to one's sensibility. One doesn't have to seal everything up in life-proof boxes, or expel and destroy all forms of life deemed out of place in one's space.
