Composting toilet

[DaveCC]

Anyone with experience of using one? Advantages / disadvantages compared to the normal cassette or black tank.

 

[Dorset Diver]

Only ever used a Dorset long drop. Always had to be careful not to drop in anything you wanted to keep.

 

[Stealaway]

I have never known one work. Mobile ones seem to be too small.

 

[DBK]

There's someone on here who has one but I can't remember their username - but they were very keen on it.

Others were less so....

 

[Minxy]

Hi Dave, welcome to the fun house.

There was a very long thread about this not long ago from someone who was insistent on having one fitted into a new MH in place of the existing cassette version, it was an 'interesting' read as they OP seemed to have quite an 'unusual' take on things! Might be worth getting yourself a nice drink and nibbles and settle down to read it ... it should give you a giggle if nothing else!

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Seriously, though, in a MH it's not really that practical which is what a lot of us were saying in the above thread.

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[PeteH]

In use, long before Mr Crappers "flush". Still used in many more remote rural places. Lots of them in the USA in State/National Parks. If I recall there are two at the CC site at Crossways?. I doubt seriously that they would function in any satisfactory fashion in a Motorhome or Caravan.

The following is courtesy of Wikipedia:-

A composting toilet is a type of dry toilet that treats human waste by a biological process called composting. This process leads to the decomposition of organic matter and turns human waste into compost-like material, but does not destroy all pathogens. Composting is carried out by microorganisms (mainly bacteria and fungi) under controlled aerobic conditions.[2] Most composting toilets use no water for flushing and are therefore called "dry toilets".

In many composting toilet designs, a carbon additive such as sawdust, coconut coir, or peat moss is added after each use. This practice creates air pockets in the human waste to promote aerobic decomposition. This also improves the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio and reduces potential odor. Most composting toilet systems rely on mesophilic composting. Longer retention time in the composting chamber also facilitates pathogen die-off. The end product can also be moved to a secondary system – usually another composting step – to allow more time for mesophilic composting to further reduce pathogens.

Composting toilets, together with the secondary composting step, produce a humus-like endproduct that can be used to enrich soil if local regulations allow this. Some composting toilets have urine diversion systems in the toilet bowl to collect the urine separately and control excess moisture. A vermifilter toilet is a composting toilet with flushing water where earthworms are used to promote decomposition to compost.

Composting toilets do not require a connection to septic tanks or sewer systems unlike flush toilets.[2] Common applications include national parks, remote holiday cottages, ecotourism resorts, off-grid homes and rural areas in developing countries.

 

[ctc]

Three toilet threads on the go, can it get any better?