I hope I am not butting in here; but, I find this site so informative. Our Renaissance Faire here in Utah is trying to do compost toilets and be more green....
I'm an electrician by trade and in a lot of construction sites. Plastic buckets are plentiful, so recycling them as compost toilets for thousand of homes are a...
I'm quite happy with plastic buckets - they'll be in use for years to come and not in`a tip somewhere, like plastic packaging etc It would be great to recycle...
City Center here in L.V. has a great deal of construction material that has been recycled. I'm not sure of the percentage, but it is a HUGE GREEN project....
Hay all, Does anyone know where I could purchase a compost thermometer other then Joseph Jenkins, Inc. He sells them $25 a pop and there has to be a cheaper...
... The best thing to do with leaves is make leaf mould. It is exactly what it say, leaves that have decomposed using fungal rather than bacterial composting....
Dear Bert and dear Colleagues, I am "normally" at the ecosanres forum. I am a German water/ecosan Engineer with many international experiences. At the moment I...
Subject: Shit Happens: Chances for a Toilet Transition? MSc-Thesis by MS Jenneke van Vliet, 2006 (Trans(h)ition?) or: Niche Management and its Contribution to...
Hi, Thanks for posting the link to Ms. vanĀ Vliet's thesis. I am especially interested because I was born and raised in the Netherlands (now living in the...
The 3rd International dry toilet conference will take place 12-15 August, 2009 in Tampere, Finland. For more information please visit www.drytoilet.org/dt2009...
Hello all! We're looking at retrofitting a composting toilet system to our UK house, and I've been looking at micro-flush systems. These all seem to come with...
good morning all.....i'm new here and will read the older posts for a while to learn from what has been posted so far.....we're looking into purchasing a...
My typical advice/rant: don't buy some machine at the store, build a sawdust two bucket system, and do your pile outside. Simple, cheap, and can't break. Tys ...
Amen to that! I love my bucket & sawdust toilet. Thought it would entail a lot of work, and I was prepared to do it, but in fact there is hardly any. And...
happy thanksgiving all.....thanks tys, col & grace.....to make a long story short ( not that it isn't a fun story :) it took me quite some time to convince my...
I would go with the bucket system. They don't break and buckets are free if your near a construction site. Having to build your work shop, chances are, your...
Greetings, I have a BioLet Standard for my cabin in New Hampshire. It's in an unheated outhouse. Three people per weekend use average in summer. In winter far...
... That's a real shame and an opportunity missed. 'Off grid' means being self-sufficient, not relying on others to supply energy; personally I feel it should...
Urine actually has antiseptic qualities and in ancient times was used on the battle field frequently to sterilize wounds and reduce the danger of infection....
... Howard, I was photographing milking in an old side-by-side cow shed; crouching down to get a good shot I moved backwards. I felt something warm and wet on...
to say nothing of the expense! instead of something in the order of $2000 for the smallest and simplest eco-friendly unit I could find (using water, of which...
Less is always more. Or KISS- keep it simple stupid. I don't blame you for laughing, Grace, You're the smart one. ________________________________ From:...
good afternoon.....i seem to have created a misunderstanding so was a bit taken aback by colin's tirade.....the place where i want to put the composting toilet...
Well I am sorry that you think my post was a tirade and lecture, it was NOT. Go ahead, spend a lot of money on a manufactured unit but don't kid yourself that...
Hi Mary! I'm guessing you might have read Del Porto's book, "The composting toilet system book." If not pick one up, it's in my opinion the most informational...
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Well it is an interesting discussion about the low tech sawdust toilet versus the high tech expensive toilet. I agree that the former is preferable but it...
