Decide whether you want to lower your utility bills or eliminate them.
Composting toilet with water flush.
This might be the second biggest concern next to odor control.
From a conventional flush toilet flushings drain through a waste pipe into an insulated plastic container.
This high capacity waterless commode utilizes a patented bio drum that hastens odorless decomposition without a fan heater water supply or sewer connection.
Topped with a starter layer of half processed compost.
Granted it s less water than the typical toilet but it s still water.
Therefore neither moving parts nor chemicals or electricity are needed in the separation and composting processes.
Composting toilets are a kind of dry toilet that converts human waste into usable soil.
For those to whom chucking litres of clean drinking water down the toilet on each flush seems wildly at odds with attempts to protect the environment and slow the climate emergency compost toilets.
The sealand toilet in the bathroom is connected by a standard 3 plumbing pipe to the composting unit which is below the toilet and normally within 15 20 feet horizontally.
The ecological toilet system aquatron is a composting toilet utilizing ordinary water closets.
Most composting toilets use a low water flush method that uses a pint or less of water to help move the waste after you have finished.
Conventional on site waste treatment systems misuse water and create pollution.
The container holds a large quantity of worms who inhabit the surface layers of a mass of carbon rich organic material wood shavings bracken leaf litter etc.
For those that want a traditional type of toilet with water flush in the bathroom the centrex family low water flush systems are ideal.
Since 1981 the sun mar excel non electric self contained composting since 1981 the sun mar excel non electric self contained composting toilet has been a reliable and easy to use waste recycler for those living off the grid or for those who just want to live a green existence.
Composting systems reduce water used for flushing by over 97 compared with 1 6 gallons per flush toilets.
They turn waste into stable dry and liquid end products useful as fertilizer.
Other toilets use electricity to warm the seat and start the composting process.
Some composting toilets still use water to flush.
Selecting the right unit.
Centrex low water flush systems are designed for use with a sealand 1 pint flush toilet.
Greywater systems reuse wash water on site for plant irrigation.
Because human waste is mostly made out of water when it evaporates it loses a lot of its volume and becomes a lot more manageable.
Can you use toilet paper for composting toilet.