I built a
composting toilet after reading The Humanure Handbook, which made me the laughing-stock of my family.
Herndon's
composting toilet requires only minimal servicing: periodic rotations of the drum plus a semiannual cleanup.
They filter rainwater to drink and have a
composting toilet. Solar panels heat water for showers and they cook their food on an open fire.
Residents enjoyed a first glimpse of the garden, which includes a levelled walkway,
composting toilet, raised beds and a covered seating area, all of which create a space that can be more easily enjoyed by older people.
There is even a
composting toilet in case you get caught short whilst weeding!
Well, the ex-Facebook executive with the gun, the remote hideaway and the
composting toilet reckons he knows the answer to that one.
He or she will have a look first at another
composting toilet - at Stoer Head Lighthouse in Sutherland - to see if they can pick up any tips.
The target is US$15,000 to build a single log cabin with a wood stove, garden, solar panels and a
composting toilet. Once that home is built, it will seek a further $15,000 to build or repair another home.
These include the building of a new hide, the installation of a
composting toilet and improved access.
The Skaneateles Lake Watershed
Composting Toilet Project highlights the material and sociocultural challenges of developing new kinds of embodied practices that effectively utilize alternatives to traditional water-dependent plumbing.
CLF's Kilian offered a one-sentence solution for the nitrogen problem on the Cape: "If conversion to
composting toilets could be widely implemented, the nitrogen problem could largely be solved on Cape Cod." Kilian added that if a home or business has a
composting toilet, "it is highly likely that there will no longer be a measurable discharge of nitrogen." So how likely is widespread adoption of
composting toilets?
that all her attempts to find in the internet a
composting toilet worth more expensive than 1500 USD were in vain.