What Is A Composting or Waterless Toilet?
Composting, or waterless toilets have long been used in remote hunting cabins but over the last few years have begun to be considered for environmentally responsible suburban and urban homes as well. There are as many benefits to a composting toilet as there are arguments against it by the unenlightened! For many years humans have had to deal wisely with their own waste- it has only been over the last century that we have had the ability to just “flush it away” as a general population. This mentality has helped to cause some of the environmental problems we have today. Composting toilets can be a real help to the environment; conserving water (and saving money on water bills), avoid pollutants being dispersed into waterways, and even enriching the soil! A composting toilet can be manufactured in a number of ways. By it’s very definition, a waterless toilet uses little or no water and instead, relies on bacteria to break down waste into a type of humus. The humus is sanitary because of
