Tag: Composting Toilets - Page 2
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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
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8 Ways to Compost and Which One You Should Try (Slideshow)
Want to compost, but not sure where to start? Confused about the difference between hot compost and cold compost? Considering worm composting, or perhaps even grub composting?
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More on Composting Toilets and Humanure in Haiti (Video)
Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that
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How to Build a "Tree Bog" Composting Toilet
When I wrote about garden mulch as composting toilet, it drew complaints from one disgruntled reader and compost-toilet geek who noted that this was really a composting urinal, not toilet. He was, of course, right.
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Garden Mulch Makes the Simplest Composting Toilet of All
From peeing in public to plush and fragrant composting toilets, there was a time when I was writing an awful lot about pee and poop. It's been a while since I visited this important topic, but as I was going through my morning
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Finally, Buildings Are Going Net- Zero Water With Composting Toilets
Water and sewage piping are the arteries and veins of our cities, requiring huge investment in infrastructure and maintenance. But have the technology both to collect and clean rainwater, and deal with human waste
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Promoting Humanure Composting in Haiti and Why It Matters (Video)
The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets
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Is "Peak Fertilizer" Nearer Than We Think? New Report Fuels Concern
Earlier this week John was musing about how "peak fertilizer" could make manure a valuable commodity once more, and if Gene Logsdon's guide to managing manure is to be believed, some mega-farmers are getting back into
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South African City Wants to Pay Folks to Pee
One bodily function may soon bring a windfall for residents of Durban, South Africa as their city council mulls over a plan to encourage waterless waste management -- by paying folks for their pee. After the city installed some
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Waterless Urinals Introduced for Home Use
Sami and I have been preoccupied with pee for a long time, wondering why we don't have urinals in our homes. After all, they use a lot less water than a toilet and are probably more sanitary as it is harder to miss.
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DIY Composting Toilets and Humanure: The Pee & Poop Show (Video)
It's been called creepy by some, but my obsession with pee and poop is not without good reason. (Hey, it got me on Lloyd's Valentine's Day list.) From peeing in public to the selective flush, how we deal with our bodily
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Urban Outhouse is the New Loo
Some TreeHuggers, mainly men, love to write about toilets and composting and poo. They should move to Britain: an estimated 40,000 houses in the UK still have outdoor toilets in their backyards. And the owners love
