Composting Toilet Basics Index

If you are researching composting toilets, you may find some of the information in the “Composting Toilet Basics” section of this website useful.  Here is an index of the articles you can find here:

1. Getting a Compost Toilet Approved. The most difficult aspect of placing a composting toilet in your home is likely going to be gaining approval and permit by local city officials.  This articles discusses some of the challenges and recent changes in the local approval permitting process for compost toilets.
   
2. Ecological Sanitation and Composting Toilets.  This article discusses the emerging waste paradigm of ecological sanitation.  Sometimes referred to as EcoSan or Eco-San, one of the primary tenants of this paradigm is that human and household “waste” is actually a valuable resource instead of a waste product to be thrown away
3. Common problems with Manufactured Composting Toilets.  Although there are many benefits to using a manufactured composting toilet model in your home, there are also some common problems, which this article discusses.
4. Toilet Composting Basics.  Just a straightforward discussion of the basics of composting toilets, including what they are, how they work and links to resources for more information.
5. Five Reasons You Should Use a Composting Toilet.  If you need more convincing that switching to a composting toilet is a good idea, take a look at this article.
   
6. History of Composting Toilets.  Discusses the somewhat murky history of composting toilets.
7. Incinerating, Desiccating and Composting Toilet Comparisons.  Incinerating and desiccating toilets are two other alternative to flush toilet systems, and this article compares the three different systems.
8. Guide to Purchasing a Compost Toilet.  Here are some of the most important questions you will need answered and issues to consider when purchasing a composting toilet for your home, RV, or boat.
   
9. Leave No Trace: Portable Composting Toilets for Camping.  Camping trips pose special challenges when it comes to properly disposing of and composting waste.  This article discusses some of the most recent products developed to assist with this process.
10. Build a Compost Toilet: Information and Plans.  Discussion and plans for building a homemade compost toilet.
11. How Composting Toilets Work.  Discusses the difference between aerobic and anaerobic decomposition and the mechanics of how the composting process works in composting toilets.
    
12. Advantages and Disadvantages of Composting Toilets.  Although composting toilets are a great green technology, they may not be for everybody.  Here are some of the benefits and challenges of switching to a toilet composting system.

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