Category Archives: Composting Toilet Basics

Toilet Composting Basics

If you are considering purchasing a toilet composting system, it is likely you have many questions about how to choose, maintain and use your system.  Here are some of the most common questions people ask when researching, installing and using a toilet composting system: What are composting toilets and how do they work? Composting toilets … Continue reading

Five Reasons You Should Use a Composting Toilet

If you are trying to decide between installing a flush toilet or a composting toilet in your home, consider the following five reasons why you should choose the composting toilet system: 1) Composting toilets help conserve valuable water resources. Flush toilet systems waste enormous amounts of clean drinking water each year.  It is estimated that … Continue reading

History of Composting Toilets

It can be argued that humans have been composting human waste since time immemorial.   However, in terms of when the first composting toilets were developed, the history is a little murky.  There are several competing claims, and the history of composting toilets is likely to be revised over time. For a long time, it was … Continue reading

Incinerating, Desiccating and Composting Toilet Comparisons

Every year, flush toilet systems waste enormous amount of water resources, cause environmental harm and incur massive social expenditures (for more information, read “What is Wrong with a Flush Toilet?“).  There are many important reasons to switch from a flush toilet system to an alternative toilet system, and in this article I will compare three … Continue reading

Guide to Purchasing a Composting Toilet

If you are seriously considering purchasing a composting toilet there are several issues to keep in mind as you review different models, to ensure that the composting toilet model you purchase will work efficiently and reliably in your home. First, you need to consider what capacity you really need given the location and daily use … Continue reading