How We Built a Compost Toilet

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I love the glowing seat, and the ease of taking this around with you. The effort that's gone in to make the compost toilet, and the post and images itself (the ones by the beach are really cool!!) is great. Definitely not a shit post!!!

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wow, yours is so much fancier than ours. I'll have to walk around the property and take pictures of the other ones around. we just poop right into the bucket, no bag.. and jump straight into the pile and rinse out after. maybe not as sanitary. thanks for sharing.

Best shit post ever with amazing photography! Did you actually take a pic of this toilet at the sea? Love it! And the glow in the dark addition is da bomb and extremely helpful for any house. I prefer to pee in the dark, at night, even inside a house, as the lights hurt my eyes and effect my sleep.

Hear hear! I was about to tell him that ;<)

Great food and great poops make life so good. Hahahahahaa. That, the cat gif and the beach picture! Imagine if this toilet was duplicated and actually used in the settlements by the beach! From a development professional's pov, I think one of the biggest problems we face is providing basic services like accessible, hygienic sanitation. Which is also one of the indicators of poverty. I reckon you could totally make this into an easy DIY kit that then gets distributed to our homegrown settlements. If you wanted!
I think I remember seeing this glow-in-the-dark seat on Instagram and was so fascinated by it. Hate turning on the light in the bathroom at night and just pee in the dark anyway. Genius, Genius.

Loved the cat levitating out XD and the ridiculous over the top photo shoot XD

Having the glow in the dark seat is a brilliant idea in an outdoor toilet XD

My youngest was wandering past and asked where you were as he doesn't think outdoor toilets in Australia are a good idea, they seem to attract every spider in a large radius xD

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I love the artistic photo shoots! 😁

I'm in a local refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle group on Facebook and one of the discussions that often comes up is the definition of "biodegradable" and whether it's compaostable or not. So when I read about your lining bag I could almost see that discussion/debate going off. 😆

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Thank you so much for reading and the repost. Haha, it's just wordplay cause you know, it is literally about shit. It's pretty cool that there's an entire community for beautiful bathrooms, will go check out other posts there!

I love the no nonsense, straightforward approach you have. Honestly cleaning out the bucket is still rather messy though the bag helps a bit. It's hygienic enough as long as people are healthy and don't have any pathogens that can be carried in the waste. A lot of the times when there's no one else on the land, I just poop in the wild and let the bugs break it down.

Thank you, yes I really went all out for that shoot. Woke up before sunrise and carried it over to the sea. The other benefit to this was that I got to test how effective our water proofing was. I didn't actually test the toilet itself, but dunking it in the sea was a good indication of how weather proof it was. We were extremely pleased with the glowing seat as well, although the toilet is reserved for poops only. When it comes to pee the entire land is the toilet, haha.

Thanks, we had fun making it. I don't know how effective this would be as a large scale solution because a lot depends on the composting that follows the toilet filling up. To compost an entire settlements waste is a logistical challenge that needs regular maintenance. it would definitely be better than having no toilet, but this will definitely have to be adapted for that scenario. This is perfect for people living off grid who can dig and maintain their own compost pits. Mo' people mo' problems.

Thank you, the conceptualising and photographing of this was a lot of fun.
We're in South India. There's plenty of spiders here as well but none of them particularly murderous. Also with the lid closed, there really aren't too many things that get into the bucket. The pit is covered too and I've never had a problem with finding animals or insects in either the bucket or pit.

Thank you. Yes biodegradable is very different from compostable. It's also important to know the timeline when it comes to these things. Something that takes 10 years to degrade isn't particularly useful in this context. They come with different grades and the bags we have can apparently take a year to fully degrade.

Wow! That's pretty impressive to hear. I actually shot my very first serious attempt at a ( short ) film, back in 2010/11, at the sea. Blogged about it years ago. I also know, from experience, that it isn't the best location to use a camera. I think I killed my first ( Mini DV ) camera at the beach, around 2005, without managing to finish a single film project with it. It just stopped recording video one day, just audio haha!

We were extremely pleased with the glowing seat as well, although the toilet is reserved for poops only. When it comes to pee the entire land is the toilet, haha.

Hahaha! And same here, concerning the latter, I pee in my own garden/ on my own land most of the times, or in the woods, whenever I go on a walk.

amazing! glow in the dark was the CORREKT choice!

B-E-S-T SHITPOST EVER!!!! Loved it, the design, the colors, all awesome. I want to be as good as you at building things.

Hey, could I use your "this post was written using renewable solar energy" logo thing? I'm writing using my recently acquired solar panels as well ✨

Happily following you, had been searching for an account like yours 💚

We have had them for ages and as I started living in the house I live in now I broke it down. The wooden toilet outside. Strangers who passed by used it too and it isn't very hygienic.
What I have now is an ordinary toilet pot inside (better during cold winters and at night). Underneath is my own hole. I flushed with buckets of water and since Sunday we have a water closet. At least as long as it isn't winter and the pipes aren't frozen.
Btw I saw toilet seats on the beach, above a hole all very clean.

Wow such a smart idea, love how it can be taken down and moved.

Great post!
Keep it up :D

Thank you so much. It's an honour you think my builds are good. Sometimes it feels like I'm a Jack of all trades, but that actually helps in putting together projects with different components.

Sure, feel free to download the image and crop the part you need. I could also maybe do a post of different graphical resources like banners, headers etc later.

Thanks for the follow, will check out your blog as well!

Your toilet seems like a better long term solution. Someday when we have more people living here we might have to look into having a large hole underneath our toilets. It's nice you could repurpose an existing seat into one that works for you. Luckily we don't have to deal with sub zero temperatures and frozen pipes, can imagine that's hard!

Thank you, it was definitely convenient that it was modular.

Thank you! :)

Graphic resources would be awesome, please do it 💗

It's better not to dig the hole underneath your toilet. Mine is about 3-4 metres away from the toilet. A stone wall around it and a lid on it (beton first wood with a hole in it). From the toilet a pipe is going to it. Try to avoid adding too much toilet paper in it. Lucky you you don't have to deal with winter.