Composting toilet

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Brilliant. The composting toilet is a model, domonstrating how technology and knowledge can be harnessed to meet a challenge without compromising comfort. We need to highlight and share examples like this – it may take some more public education to become a mainstream solution.

@59Gretsch Right. You don’t “waste” water when you flush. It evaporates and comes back as, DRUM ROLL, WATER!!!

Do the “water-less” composting toilets smell?

oh my God…LOL! Well I am all for good resource management, but how does this equate to home use? I will have to research it more. Looks interesting though.

Thank you for posting this…Informative. I just wish it had a more in-depth look at home use rather than the business/public use and how it was actually much more labor than other toilets (as commented by some of the “talking heads” in the documentary anyway)…

their are plenty of self contained systems. What was shown in the video was an industrial size system.

How about, in order to get more drinking water using desalinization that use the heat from power plants to create pure water. Water that is normally used to cool power plants is pushed in its pure steam form back into the atmosphere instead of releasing that pure moisture into the air, harness the steam and use it for pure water free of any bacteria virus and any other biological contamination. The Oceans contain an endless supply of water harness that resource, it’s right in front of our faces.

Not all systems require a basement.

The clivus that I used was always treated with a great deal of respect. There was never an overwhelming amount of turd going into it. That being said, servicing it wasn’t a big deal. It worked fine. I suppose if the volume of turd going in exceeds capacity, there might be a problem. A friend of mine would grow with the compost.

Can you tell me some more about the clivus? Like, do you need to rake it once a month or something (and is this as nasty as it sounds?). Does it actually compost (I’ve heard horrible stories about the Enviolet and like systems)?

Well anything like a large APT or office building. but a family houses nope your right and to not mention many houses would be absolutely incompatible to install such asystem. I know my house would not work. It doesn’t even a basement. It would be much more damaging to the evniorment to tear down millionso f homes to make them “compatibility”. Not to mention money, and human effort to get the materials and everything to put all together again. I’m afraid were stuck with the water tiolet.

lol sorry but this guy is stickign his hand in a pile of human turds! haha

Along with composting toilets we should be taking advantage of those machines that make water from air to help those ppl dying from dehydration in Africa and else where.

I’ve used a clivus and have taken part in maintaining a system. It takes some effort but hardy any. Maintaining one is not a big deal. Maybe the flushing toilet can be gradually phased out. Wouldn’t it be nice if as a society we all could change for the better. But look all the trash on the roads. Stupid people will put trash into these toilets also. Education is a good thing.

look at the 10s of thousands it costs to install and run dirty sewers.This runs for free and si fer cleaner.Inthis ere of peak oil this tech wont be seen as “alternative” just necessary and NOT extremely stupid like sewers.

Well, I actually never though about it although I don’t think that it is much of problem but I guess you could apply some safeguard againts kids falling down.

It can take years between changes if done properly, so no worries there.

I would say composting is even more important in places they have limited access to water as composting doesn’t required it, and when it comes to bulking material, anything with carbon goes, but is not required as far as know, it only helps to speed up the composting proccess.

How about something that is almost too cheap and you don’t even have to move a finger to flush it. Like a bucket that looks like a toilet.

What about kids falling down there? It appeared to be very deep? I love this toilet Idea, and I want to make something similar at home. I want to make sure though that I don’t have to change it very frequently.

I like the general idea, but there are still challenges. In places like Oregon, neither water or tress (for pine shavings) are scarce, so both the traditional toilet and ocmposting toilet are possible. However, in Africa, desert-dwelling people have neither.

here’s an idea – mix this w/ rainwater recapture. 1) you have the water required to “clean” the toilet & retain our sense of “clean” and 2) you’re not using drinking water – you’re using rainwater that’s stored in a giant barrel.

This is a nifty idea, but I think has more commerical application in a commerical building – the amount of poop needed for viable compost is large – would take years and years for a family of 4, but a fraction of time for an office building.

You know more about this compost toilet than, I tell me, how much would one of these systems cost to install in my home?

I am a big believer that: if something is expensive it requires me to go to work more which in it’s self uses (wastes) resources that I would not other wise waste.

Well I guess that’s a way to see it! But when it comes to the environment, direct causation and short strategies are never a good idea or you get interpretations like yours.

Rather look into the long term effects of composting and its indirect consequences.

Of course where I live there is no problem with water shortage, but still composting is far better environmental solution and not because of one reason but many.

This is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.
Suggesting that by not flushing my toilet here will somehow mean more water in africa is…. well typical “emotional logic”.