Modern Composting Toilets People have misconceptions when they hear the words "composting toilets".
Immediately they think "outhouse" or imagine a hole in the ground.
The composting toilets of today are efficient, sleek and completely odor-free.
These types of toilets are friendly to the environment, promote green living and are totally waste free.
Benefits To Using This Type of Toilet Self contained composting toilets produce no pollution, no waste and no lost water.
Manufacturers of these toilets estimate that they reduce household water usage by 50% or more.
If you garden, the humus produced by the this toilet can provide very rich fertilizer for your gardens and lawn.
In a natural disaster, you can't flush your toilet because your city cannot process the water.
These toilets keep your household from depending on the local waste water treatment plant or septic tank to process your waste.
You can also use the toilet to compost your household food waste.
How Composting Toilets Work These types of toilets work by efficiently dehydrating 90% of the liquid that's in human waste.
The remaining 10% waste solids are then composted.
These composted waste solids can then be used as fertilizer for the lawn and garden.
Types of Toilets There are two kinds of this type of toilet.
Self contained systems have all their parts in one unit.
At the bottom of the toilet the waste is composted on a tray.
There is a ventilation pipe with a small fan that extends into outside air on your roof.
This ventilation pipe keeps the system odor free.