General information |
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| Composting Toilet Demonstration | composting toilet demonstration – 126-page pdf – detailed report from Australia |
| Environmental Design & Construction | article: compost toilets emerge as viable alternative |
| Joe Jenkins | humanure headquarters – including Jenkins’ Humanure Handbook free online |
| New Scientist | article about whether compost loos or flush systems should be promoted in poorer countries, and which system would prove most hygienic and cost-effective |
| Oikos | what is a composting toilet system and how does it compost? |
| US Environmental Protection Agency | 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 |
| Compost Toilets: a Guide for Owner-Builders | 1980 book by National Center for Appropriate Technology |
| Goodbye to the Flush Toilet | large pdf – 1977 book by Carol Stoner |
| 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 | about compost toilets, urine separation and what a great fertiliser urine is |
| Institute of Water & Environmental Studies | Swedish report – fighting the urine blindness to provide more sanitation options |
| Tiny House Ontario | building a urine separating composting toilet |
| Urine Diversion | detailed report based on a PhD thesis |
Pest control / potential pathogens |
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| Barrier Animal Healthcare | red mite concentrate – natural killer of red mites, a potential pest with home-built compost loos |
| Fruit Fly Trap | innovative way to trap tiny flies |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information | scientific paper on the survival of fecal coliforms in dry-composting toilets |
| Oikos | pathogens and composting toilet systems |
| Oikos | the basics of vectors & insects; from the Composting Toilet System book |
| SuperGreenMe | how to keep ‘fungus gnats’ (tiny flies) out of your compost loo |
Outdoor compost loos / privies / developing countries |
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| Double-Vault Composting Toilet | 1981 book by the Environmental Sanitation Information Center, Thailand |
| Dry Composting Toilets in Guatemala | 1982 book by A Van Buren |
| Mother Earth News | human composting privy |
| Oasis Design | ‘earth & orchard’ toilet plans |
| Permaculture Research Institute | Farallones (batch type) composting toilet construction and management manual |
| Practical Action | technical brief for the construction of compost toilets in developing countries |
| VIVA Technical Bulletin | 1981 booklet on building a basic composting privy |
| World Health Organisation | large pdf – 1958 book on excreta disposal for rural areas and small communities |
Compost loos on boats |
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| Low-impact Life on Board | all about compost toilets on narrowboats |
| Mid-Wales Permaculture Network | take one Dutch barge, and add a compost loo |
| Sailboat Family | how to install an off-the-shelf compost toilet on a sailing boat |
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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| Adam Hart-Davis | Adam Hart-Davis (the bloke on the telly) discusses loos, and especially Henry Moule’s earth closet |
| 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, Canada | 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 |
Waterless urinals |
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| Gentworks | waterless urinals benefits and pitfalls |
| Gentworks | how to prevent urinal odours – waterless or not |
| Go Green Academy | waterless urinals: how do they work? |
| HepvO | the cheapest way to turn a urinal into a waterless urinal |
| How Stuff Works | how waterless urinals work |
| How Stuff Works | 10 stand-up facts about waterless urinals |
| Industrial Economics Inc. | waterless urinals report and evaluation – detailed report |
| MinnPost | article: why I preach the gospel of waterless urinals |
| Waterless | pros and cons of waterless urinals |
| Waterless (pdf) | a review of waterless urinal systems |
| Wetland Studies | waterless urinals: the good, the bad and the ugly |
| Wired Magazine | pissing match: is the world ready for waterless urinals? |
| Zero Flush | cost comparison page for flush vs waterless urinals in public buildings. US site, but you can convert the results |
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