Composting toilets

Relating to composting toilets.

Composting toilet on cement slab

Site location: 
Oakland, CA

Composting toiletComposting toiletThis toilet was built up, due to the concrete slab foundation underneath. A hatch outside allows for collection of the urine and feces.

Prettiest composting toilet in Oakland

Site location: 
Oakland, CA

Urine separating composting toilet.Urine separating composting toilet.This composting toilet was built during a bathroom remodel. The old, water guzzling flush toilet was taken out, and this pretty composting toilet was put in. Feces are collected below the house and urine travels to a container outside to fertilize the yard.

History of Sewers

Cesspools and Cholera: The Development of the Modern Sewer

by Joaquin I. Uy

This is an excerpt of an article in Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground.

Mexican toilet

Composting toilet owner built a brick enclosure around a Mexican fabricated composting toilet.

Mexican toilet

"Dry" composting toilet

Double-vault dry toilet in Mexico. (photo from Tepoz-Eco).

"Dry" composting toilet

About composting toilets

Corn grown with urine-fertilizer. (photo by Peter Morgan, Aquamor)Corn grown with urine-fertilizer. (photo by Peter Morgan, Aquamor)The modern day sewer system has failed. Fortunately, we don't need costly sewage plants or septic systems to render human waste into a harmless substance that, instead of being a problem, is a solution to problems of water shortages, water pollution, and reliance on chemical fertilizers.

This is ecological sanitation, taking care of our human sanitation needs in a way that is helpful, rather than harmful, to the environment.

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