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composting toilets

Using little or no water, composting toilets are designed to convert human waste into compost via aerobic decomposition and can be installed anywhere. Composting toilets require that the solids be removed periodically, depending on the size of the unit. See also: Water management systems
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This is excerpted from their book Essential Composting Toilets: A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use (New Society Publishers), www.
"There will be improved access to the hide and surrounding meadows of high wildlife value and a composting toilet on the Eastern approach to the area.
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The expensive composting toilets, for which the Government of Armenia has allocated $305.6 thsd, have again found
Retired teacher Barbara Staples, who invited Martin to speak to the vegetarian group, bought into the idea of extreme recycling before buying her first composting toilet system.
I wasn't far from the mark when my husband suggested we implement a composting toilet system, also referred to as a dry toilet.
At the same time, using such a composting toilet would prevent the kind of groundwater contamination that is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
Composting toilet systems, which average $1,500 or more, use the least amount of water and biodegrade waste on-site.
Sancor Industries will be showing its Santerra Green Composting Toilet, with a special appearance from actor Ed Begley Jr.
In Malawi, west Africa, a permaculture project run by Stacia and Kristof Nordin uses a composting toilet to fertilize crops.
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Over the coming months the project will include providing a multi-use building incorporating a learning area, Middlesbrough's first composting toilet, small gardening plots for family and community use and larger plots for school use, multi-use poly tunnels for indoor cultivation and rainy day activity, play areas, lighting and CCTV cameras, car parking and a composting area.