Comparing off grid toilets for your home? Learn about five different options, as well as what we use. Our answer may surprise you.

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.

Komposttoiletten verbrauchen kein Wasser und schonen die Umwelt. Mit unseren Tipps können Sie ein Kompostklo selber bauen oder mehr darüber erfahren.

Learn considerations and best practices for building and using a composting toilet at a Living Web Farms workshop on Saturday, Oct. 29.

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.

What is a composting toilet? How our DIY composting toilet system was built and how it works for our cabin and campsites on the CSC land.

Whether you are looking for DIY composting toilet plans to build in your home, RV, or Camper Van, you've come to the right place!

Wie geht man in einem Schrebergarten zur Toilette? Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es? Mit Vorstellung unserer Lösung, einer Kompost-Trenn-Toilette von Kildwick

Compost toilets are extremely efficient and don’t use any water, unlike flush toilets which use 30,000-plus liters of water per person each year. Instead, we can turn humanure into a sustainable waste

Have you ever thought about getting a composting toilet, but heard rumors that left you feeling queasy? Let me clear a few things up! Composting toilets decompose human excrement by creating the aerobic conditions for bacteria and other macro and micro-organisms to thrive which then destroys harmful pathogens and eliminates the risk to human health […]

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.

If you are planning on building a DIY composting toilet, definitely read these tips first to avoid the same mistakes I did!

Weil er dem Chemie-Klo den Rücken kehren will, hat sich der liebe Michael eine Trocken-Trenn-Toilette selbstgebaut. Schaut selbst.

Reasons for building a composting toilet Traditional toilets use up to 5 gallons of water on a single flush whereas composting toilets need very little to no water. Sewage treatment plants require significant infrastructure, operating expenditures, and energy to clean wastewater. Septic tanks are expensive and may not be possible depending on land conditions and environmental

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Have you ever thought about how much water we could save if there was a way to get rid of waste without water? Surprise, waterless toilets aren't a myth.

Selbstversorgung im Einklang mit der Natur

Komposttoiletten verbrauchen kein Wasser und schonen die Umwelt. Mit unseren Tipps können Sie ein Kompostklo selber bauen oder mehr darüber erfahren.

Down-Sized Living in a Modern Age

We're a few enthusiasts who have spent a great deal of time researching, reviewing and using composting toilets on a daily basis. It took us so long to

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A Dry Composting Toilet Creates Resource of Humanure Compost on Homestead has in the last decade has slowly lurched into the mainstream. People have embraced the "Garden To Table" movement but have not taken to heart the human waste composted into a fertilizer concept. On a personal note: I am…

There are too many to skip flush toilets for composting ones. Likewise, you can make the perfect humane management facility right at home. And you can find s

So, you want a composting toilet in your campervan? Here are the best ones out there, plus the one I chose for my van!

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.

This is a design for a demountable structure housing two compost toilets. The design brief for the toilet was to be used initially for our wedding

Chances are good that if you are reading this, you learned from a young age how to pee in the woods. Now, we are about to suggest you to use a bucket, yes, even in

« Les toilettes sèches ou, mieux, toilettes à compost car elles n’ont rien de sec, sont des toilettes à litière ou encore toilettes à litière biomaîtrisée (TLB). Il s’agit d&…

In 2012, I (Martin) wanted to change the world! So after many years working in IT, I started a business called The Little House Company selling Separett

Composting toilets are off-the-grid, environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional toilets that are gaining popularity. But do they work? We introduce you to composting toilets and set the record straight on some persistent misconceptions.

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.

I just read a post on composting toilets here on the PRI site and remembered that I never posted about the composting toilets I made last year (for various projects) based on a similar principles, but

For those of you who have followed this blog for a while, you'll know that, all the way back nearly 5 years ago when we built the original Floating Empire, we opted for a simple bucket composter instead of a blackwater system for the boat. I had originally designed a urine diverter for the system, but . . .um . . .it didn't. . . .well. . .work. The bucket system, using compostable bag liners and largely wood stove pellets for compost mass, served us well for nearly four years. The original composting head going in Floating Empire. Note fitting for our original, failed diverter.....ah well. This winter, though, on moving to our new boat Tesla's Revenge, we began to get increasingly, not unhappy, but tired of dealing with the bucket composter. This isn't to say we don't like using composting toilets. We do. They're simple, inexpensive, and unlike every blackwater system I've ever seen, they don't smell and there's nothing to break. I can't imagine using anything else. Unlike Floating Empire, though, the new boat was a traditional sailboat hull (a former CAL 29) and dumping the bucket meant taking it out of the head, climbing up into the cockpit with it, then up onto the dock, then. . . .you get the idea. This winter's weather has been unpleasant here. Unpredictable, wet, and windy, and that's meant spending a lot more time on the boat, which means we've been filling up the john far more quickly and having to empty it. . .well. . .a lot. But dealing with that led me to revisiting the idea of a urine separator. Here's the thing: MOST of the waste coming out of people is pee. Pee is what smells, and it's heavy (over 8 lbs per gallon) and takes up a lot of room. Separating the urine into a different, watertight container meant that we could empty the toilet far less often, which, since I'm the one that gets to drag five gallons of the stuff up and out of the boat, is something I kinda wanted to see happen. There are a lot of diverter toilet parts available on the market, and, like all good Americans, I went immediately to the web to look at them again. Immediately I encountered two issues: First, most of them made the toilet a lot longer front to back, designed as they were to accommodate a traditional toilet seat. We use a snap-on toilet seat intended for use with 5 gallon buckets and really don't have that kind of room, and I wasn't anxious to totally rebuild our current toilet housing (for instructions on how to build the basic bucket composter, btw, click here). Second, the things were damned expensive, and, IMHO, weirdly so. I did, however, stumble across a few sites that had some nice gonzo diverters made from the same 5 gallon buckets we were using for the toilet. Now if I could just figure out how to make them fit into our existing bucket composter housing. So, dear reader, below is the instructions on how to do what I came up with. It fits inside the basic bucket composter, you can still use your existing snap on lid, and it's monstrously inexpensive. We are currently testing it out and it seems to be working beautifully. You will need: (In addition to your bucket composter set up, as detailed here) A 5 gallon bucket (preferably one identical to the one use used for the composter) A few feet of 3/8" ID (1/2" OD) tubing A screw fitting for the tubing A container (Milk jug, cat litter jug, water bottle, soda bottle, whatever) for the pee. Three stainless steel (trust me) screws, about 1/2" Some plumbers caulk That's it. You're gonna be cutting a wedge out of the bucket bottom, and, yes, these were once the same color. Amazing, hunh? Here's a little better shot of the piece with the drain fitting in place. I left the little "wings" on either side in case I needed some extra plastic to screw it in place. I wound up not needing it and trimmed them off. First, measure off a distance on your bucket from the bottom and up the side which is about equal to half the opening of your bucket composter. You're going to be cutting a wedge shaped piece out of the bottom and side, using about half of the bucket bottom. Cutting this polyethylene can be a bit of a challenge. The material is sticky, and can both flex AND shatter, an unfortunate combo. We used a jigsaw to do the cut, moving slowly and trying not to overstress the material. here's the wedge piece with the hose fitting in place. Drill a hole for your fitting in the bottom and screw it directly into the plastic. I recommend using plumbers caulk on the threading. We tried using a silicone caulk on the bottom around the fitting and it didn't stay. Hardly surprising. Virtually nothing will stick to polyethylene plastic, including paint, barnacles, glue, even permanent marker has issues. Snake the tubing trough the outside of the housing and through the side of the upper bucket half (that holds the seat). Drill a hole in the upper bucket piece for your hose to exit. Note that it needs to be up high enough that the lower composter bucket won't pinch it when you stack the two. it's okay if there's a bit of a downward bow to the tube before it exits the bucket(s). That will just provide a way for any leaking urine to drip into the composter bucket and not run down the tube. Run the tubing from outside your composter housing, through the upper bucket side, and force it onto the fitting for your diverter. Then put the diverter in place and screw it to the bucket. Pilot holes are recommended. Note that you'll be screwing the piece in canted, so it forms a sort of "V" with the drain fitting at the bottom. Use stainless screws if at all possible as urine is really corrosive. Here's the diverter screwed into place with the tubing press fit in place. Note that it doesn't interfere with snapping on the Luggable Loo toilet seat. It took a bit of tweaking to the system, moving the diverter down a bit so your bum didn't hit it and fiddling with the tubing so it didn't kink on it's way out of the bucket, but once we got those few bugs out, the system works spectacularly. We initially ran the tubing into a half-gallon milk jug just as a test and wound up emptying it on a daily basis. We've substituted a 2 1/2 gallon container for that one, which is much more convenient. The big surprise has been just how seldom we've had to dump the solid waste part of the toilet (it's looking like 5-7 days at least), and how little biomass we're now using to keep it covered and odor free. We use a small squirt bottle of bleach water to keep the diverter and tube flushed after most uses so there's not even a whiff of urine odor. In general, I'm wishing we'd done this a lot sooner. It would've saved me a lot of hauling. Let me know if you try this. it's a simple fix. More shortly M AND AN UPDATE: A lot of folks have asked us to put all the blog articles on composting toilet construction and care and feeding in one place, so we've consolidated all those pages along with some additional material and created a little Ebook. The thing is available by the below link on Amazon for Kindle. It's free if you have Kindle Unlimited, otherwise it will set you back a massive .$.99. It was the easiest way to put the thing together and distribute the information, and if you do download, you'll be giving us grand total of $.35 to help us further the stuff we're doing here. If you're interested, just click the picture or link below:

For many, composting toilets can be the perfect solution for providing a bathroom in a remote area. Whether it be a cabin, off-grid house, or a tiny home or camper.

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What About the Smell you may ask. My Homemade composting Toilet smells like damp sawdust. I love showing it to people when they ask because they always say, “That doesn’t smell at all!” if you are looking at building your own compaosting toilet this article is a great start to building your own simple toilet.

To pick the right DIY composting toilet for you, consider your building skills, budget, and which of our ideas would be the most feasible for you.