So how does he survive? He makes his own toothpaste, using as the main ingredient cuttlefish bone, which washes up on most sea shores, and wild fennel seeds. He uses a compost toilet – or a hole in the ground, the humanure, as he calls it, is used to fertilise his vegetable plot – and washes his clothes with a detergent made from boiled nuts.
Donegal Man Puts Cash Into Trash (Conor Pope, Irish Times)
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