Composting Toilet

adambeck7 wrote:
Thanks for the update Bill.

Naio wrote:
That would help with the odor, but it would do it by killing the bacteria! For composting, you need live bacteria, of the right kind. Bleach kills indiscriminately.

You put the bleach in the urine container. There is a separate urine container that doesn't compost. Nothing to do with the composting process in the rest of the toilet.

Yeah, if you're not going to compost the urine (or water the bushes with it) you can do that.

Naio wrote:
It evaporates excess liquid. Another option is to drain off the liquid, but legally that has to go into a sewer. Some toilets allow you to do either option (fan or drain) and some only have one or the other.

No, there is no urine to drain off because they're separated at the point of entry. It's to help dry out the feces/peat moss mixture and vent it. There is no roof vent like the traditional toilets.


You're talking about a different model of toilet. Like I said, different models do it differently, and the fan is for excess LIQUID, not necessarily urine.