We’ve looked at cheap and cheerful home-made DIY compost toilets; waterless, sawdust toilets which are basically a bucket you need to empty yourself every few days. These systems work, speeding up the action and fertility of a conventional compost heap and providing an extremely environmentally friendly way of dealing with human waste. But, being of a ‘back to basics’ nature they really are not for everyone. If you prefer a less hands on approach to the waterless toilet you can buy self contained compost toilets instead. These self contained systems are a very glamorous version of the bucket compost loo. […]
Compost Toilet – The Sawdust Toilet
The compost toilet can be as complicated, expensive, cheap or basic as you like. As far as indoor compost toilets are concerned none are more simple to create, use and understand than the sawdust toilet. We have a sawdust toilet and I really cannot recommend it enough. Even if you have no intention of ever foregoing your luxurious plumbed in conventional toilet, you should at least know about sawdust toilets. Then, the next time the water supply is disrupted or you are remodelling the bathroom you can use this simple composting toilet system until your preferred poo receptacle is functioning […]
Compost Toilet Month
Mr DirtyBoots is still AWOL at the moment. He will be back soon with lots of ideas to earn a living without ‘Working for the Man’. In the meantime I’m butching up to bring you a serious on the humble (and not so humble compost toilet). We have a fairly basic model constructed by himself years ago. Initially our sawdust toilet was created through necessity rather than choice. We had no running water so it seemed the sensible option for dealing with the DirtyBoots poo. Now though, we are complete converts to the waterless toilet. It is great not to […]