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General information |
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| Composting Toilet Demonstration | composting toilet demonstration – 126-page pdf – detailed report from Australia |
| Inside Science | inside the controversial world of composting toilets |
| Joe Jenkins | humanure headquarters – including Jenkins’ Humanure Handbook free online |
| New Earth | article: compost toilets emerge as viable alternative |
| New Scientist | composting toilets key to global sanitation |
| US Environmental Protection Agency | water efficiency technology factsheet on composting toilets |
| Wastewater System & Composting Toilet | first-hand account of using a compost loo |
| Wikipedia | entry for composting toilet |
Build your own |
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| Aquatron | you could fit an Aquatron to separate solids and liquids |
| Barrel Composting Toilet System | detailed description of the ‘barrel’ composting toilet system |
| Build your own waterless toilet | booklet to accompany Australian one-day course |
| Goodbye to the Flush Toilet | 1977 book by Carol Stoner – read online |
| Permaculture Magazine | build a compost toilet, ladies urinal & solar shower from recycled materials |
| Salvo | listing of UK salvage yards – useful for materials for build-your-own |
Urine separation |
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| Greywater Action | greywater systems and compost loos |
| Institute of Water & Environmental Studies | Swedish report – fighting ‘urine blindness’ to provide more sanitation options, including urine as fertiliser |
| Research Gate | urine separation – Swedish experiences |
| Tiny House Ontario | building a urine separating composting toilet |
| Urine Diversion | detailed report based on a PhD thesis |
| Wikipedia | urine diversion |
Pest control / potential pathogens / hygiene |
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| Barrier Animal Healthcare | red mite concentrate – natural killer of red mites, a potential pest with home-built compost loos |
| Ecosanres | guidelines for the safe use of urine and faeces in ecological sanitation systems |
| Fruit Fly Trap | innovative way to trap tiny flies |
| Green Latrine | how to prevent flies in a compost toilet |
| Humanure Handbook | pathogens and composting toilet systems |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information | scientific paper on the survival of fecal coliforms in dry-composting toilets |
Outdoor compost loos / privies / developing countries |
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| Farallones Institute | Farallones (batch type) composting toilet construction and management manual |
| Mother Earth News | human composting privy |
| Oasis Design | ‘earth & orchard’ toilet plans |
| Practical Action | compost toilets in poor countries |
Compost loos on boats |
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| Boating Magazine | choosing a composting marine toilet |
| Living on a Narrowboat | composting toilets on a boat |
| the Narrowboat Experience | living with a composting toilet |
Tree bogs |
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| Permaculture Magazine | a loo with a view: build your own tree bog |
| Steward Wood | how to build, use, and not abuse, a tree bog |
| Wikipedia | entry for tree bog |
| Woodlands.co.uk | video showing how to build a tree bog |
Henry Moule’s earth closet(almost became the standard toilet in the West) |
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| BBC History of the World | Moule’s mechanical dry earth closet |
| Loose Data Research | the reverend Henry Moule and the earth closet |
| Philip Strange | earth closets and great stinks |
| Wikipedia | entry for Henry Moule |
Human waste as fertiliser |
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| Canberra Times | expert says that human waste is a safe fertiliser |
| EcoSanRes | guidelines on the uses of urine and faeces in crop production |
| International Development Research Center | 1978 book – compost, fertiliser and biogas production from human and farm wastes in China |
| Journey to Forever | Albert Howard: the manufacture of humus from the wastes of town and village |
| Journey to Forever | Albert Howard: the utilisation of municipal waste in South Africa |
| Scientific American | human urine is shown to be an effective agricultural fertiliser |
| The Washington Post | human urine is a safe, productive fertiliser |
