Tag: Composting Toilets
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More hot poop on composting toilets
A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.
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2012: The Year in Pee and Poop
Another year down the drain: From pee-powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet-related stories. Here are some of our favorites.
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4 Composting Outhouses That Provide a Room With a View
Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.
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Stop The Five Gallon Flush: A 40 Year Old Guide To Alternative Toilets
Bill Gates take note: It's all in here and It is surprising how little has changed
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Crapping On Bill Gates' "Reinvent the Toilet" Winner
The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.
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World's Biggest Urine Separating, Composting Toilet Scheme Fails
We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.
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Fox News In Shock: Composting Toilets Don't Smell
TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?
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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
