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The simplest, cheapest and easiest compost toilet
Maybe you’re thinking about buying or building a compost toilet, but you’re not sure if you’re ready to make the leap and part with a lump of cash or spend a lot of time making something. What if you...
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Compost Toilet ‘Waste’ Collection Service for London Boaters
Compost toilets are an excellent option for people living on or using a narrowboat. Getting away from the chemical toilet reduces the horrible chemical smells, dependence on finding a suitable pump...
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Can you pour urine into a canal?
In a word, no! Let’s expand on this a little bit. The context here is for people in the UK who have a urine-diverting waterless/compost toilet on a narrowboat or wide-beam, and therefore will need to...
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Reducing Nitrates from urine with a Woodchip Bioreactor
Can’t we just pee onto the ground, like other animals? Allowing small amounts of urine to be discharged into the ground, through a soak-away pit, is the usual way of dealing with the urine output from...
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The Night Soil Man
“Night Soil Man” from Dunston, Lincolnshire. He took away human waste to be used as fertiliser (1872). Photo credit: Professor Frank McDonough “Night Soil”, which is untreated, uncomposted human waste...
View ArticleCertification Bodies for Compost Toilets
Navigating the the maze of local building control, planning permission and building regulations in relation to installing a compost toilet can be intimidating. What doesn’t help is that different...
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One year on, am I still using the simple compost toilet?
Around a year ago, I wrote about using a very simple ‘humanure’ style bucket compost toilet [link to original article]. So one year on, how do I feel this really cheap, simple compost toilet has worked...
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Rethinking water use – the role of the compost toilet in a drought-prone world
In the UK, the average direct water consumption is 141 litres per person, per day, with up to 30% of domestic water consumption is used for flushing the toilet. The water used is drinking quality...
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Separett Villa compost toilet installed in Oxford garden room
A few years ago, I was asked if I could install a Separett Villa compost toilet in a gorgeous garden room just outside of Oxford, UK. An initial site visit revealed that the owner had already asked...
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Compost toilets – making meaningful reductions in water consumption
Last August, I wrote an article on compost toilets and how they can help towards a meaningful reduction in water consumption, prompted by the (at that time) unimaginable heatwave (40ºC) we had in the...
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