What Is A Composting Toilet
Composting toilets are a modern day version of an outhouse. Outhouses have been used for hundreds (possibly) thousands of years, and in their simplest forms they are just a hole in the ground.
Composting toilets put a more modern and appealing face on the “hole in the ground” approach, and there are even more aesthetic approaches and alternatives to using an actual hole for the bathroom waste too.
The concept of a composting toilet is nothing new. All organic waste will decompose and turn into a rich compost which can be used for any type of gardening. Whether you like to grow flowers and bushes or you have a large organic food garden and fruit trees to help provide for your family, compost will enrich the soil and help everything to grow better, faster, and healthier.
Compost made from manure tends to be the very best kind, and this is true whether the manure comes from farm animals or humans. And it’s that human manure compost which can be gotten by using composting toilets.
Instead of flushing human urine and feces into a sewer system far away from your home, a composting toilet allows it to simply drop into a specially made tank or container. Composting toilets are usually dry toilets, meaning you do not flush the waste down the toilet with water. Sometimes small amounts of water are used to rinse the inside of the toilet bowl, but for the most part a composting toilet is also known as a dry toilet.
The waste drops down a pipe, hole or chute of some kind into a holding container where it can start decomposing over time. As the waste decomposes, it turns into a rich compost which can be used for trees, bushes, gardens and farmland as noted previously. The breakdown process does take time of course, and how long it will take to turn human waste into usable compost will depend on a variety of things.
And that’s one of the downsides to the modern compost toilet design trends. They use a very attractive and “normal” looking toilet in the bathroom, and that toilet is …
