Tag: Composting Toilets

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  More Hot Poop on Composting and Alternative Toilets

  It's time to seriously consider putting composting toilets in our houses; they are getting so good that you will barely notice the change.

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  Yes, Civilized People DO Have Composting Toilets In Their Homes

  Waste is too valuable to just flush away. But can you comfortably live with the alternative? Laurence Grant does, and explains how.

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  Tiny Island Nation Embraces Composting Toilets, Fights Major Water Shortages

  Tuvalu has little land and even less fresh water. But simple composting toilets may help alleviate this problem.

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  More Hot Poop on Composting Toilets: Biolan Icelett Freezes Your Poop For Composting Later

  We have seen toilets that vaporize it and compost it, but this is the first we have seen that refrigerates it.

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  Would You Compost Your Dog or Cat's Poop?

  Generally speaking pet poop is considered a no no in composting. But some gardeners are experimenting anyway, with decidedly mixed results.

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  The Greenest Building In New York May Well Be A Public Toilet

  A new comfort station in the Riverside Park will be the first building in New York certified by the Living Building Challenge.

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  2011: The Year in Pee and Poop

  Pee and poop is not just a reason for toilet humor. In fact human waste can be deadly serious. In 2011, there were a lot of stories on how we might answer nature's call a little differently. Here are our favorites.

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  Diaper (or Nappy) Composting Reaches the UK

  The Brit in me bristles to use the term "diaper", but if I said "nappy", I suspect many would have no clue what I am talking about. But, whatever you call them, disposable

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  The History and Design of the Bathroom Part 8: Pulling It All Together

  Over the last few weeks I have tried to pull all of the disparate ideas for the bathroom together and come up with a functional and practical set of ideas. Here is a summary of them all, in one bathroom that you can't

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  Could Composting Toilets Save Cities Millions in Waste Water Treatment?

  From the humanure approach of pooping in a bucket to the rough-and-ready "tree bog" composting toilet, I've posted plenty of low tech DIY options for dealing with human waste. But my fellow TreeHugger writers, to their credit, have

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  A Kid's View of a Humanure Garden & a Great Poop Song (Video)

  Whether it's humanure composting in urban Oakland, or safer sanitation with humanure in Haiti, there are many advocates of humanure systems and other forms of composting toilets around the world. Yet every time the topic

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  History and Design of the Bathroom Part 7: Putting A Price on Poop and Pee

  I took some serious abuse in comments when I wrote Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet, questioning whether we needed a high-tech toilet solution. Commenters wrote: "This article is a disgrace and a sham." Niels Peter Flint, who I

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  Which Composting Method is Best for You? Infographic Helps You Decide

  From worm composting to building a DIY compost tumbler, TreeHugger is not short on information on different methods of composting. But how does each method stack up against the other? That was the question that inspired a

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  Composting Kitty Litter with a Cat Poop Portal

  I've mused before about one composting no-no—whether or not you can compost dirty diapers. And over at Planet Green, Colleen once listed 75 things you can compost but thought you couldn't. But there is one thing that is

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  Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet

  Bill and Melinda are making a big investment in " a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world." The foundation notes that a billion

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  Portable Composting Toilets for Festivals, Homes and More

  As festival season rolls on, many party goers will have been putting up with the ordeal of smelly, chemical-laden and often disgustingly soiled portable toilets. But it doesn't have to be that way. Roskilde's p-trees

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  Fred Pearce On Peak Phosphorus: It's Time For Pee-Cycling

  We have noted before that we are near Peak Phosphorus. Fred Pearce writes at Environment360 that it is A Critical Resource Misused and Now Running Low. It is also, like oil, sourced in countries that are

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  Public Urinal Feeds Plants With Pee

  The idea of urine separation to ward off peak fertilizer is not exactly new. But while some of us get to pee on our garden mulch, or urinate on our compost heaps, infrastructure for large-scale urine collection in an