The Wheelie Bin System
Many of our ready-made composting toilets feature the ubiquitous wheelie bin – an innovative and hassle free system for composting human manure. Using a wheelie bin may at first sound strange, but if we were to hire a team of designers to come up with the perfect receptacle to hold humanure then after two years and a huge budget they would come back with the wheelie bin!
Wheelie bins are easy to move, watertight, rodent proof and cheap, which makes storage and emptying a doddle.
Once you have filled your first bin then you replace it with a second bin. When this is full, you empty the first bin (which should have started to compost nicely by now) into a standard garden 1m x 1m compost box that allows the air to circulate and aerobic composting to happen more rapidly. Here the final stage of the compost process happens for up to a year. Each subsequent bin is added on top. The waste is reduced from 100% solids to 6% in one - two years.
The advantage of the wheelie bin system is that you can rotate the bins as quickly as they fill up. More people means more bins. On average, using the composting toilet everyday, it takes one adult 150 days to fill up a bin. So a group of six people would fill a bin in about 25 days, and a group of 15 people would fill a bin in about two weeks. If the toilet is used only occasionally, it will take much longer to fill the bin.
Twin Chamber Toilets
This system uses a large rectangular box made from recycled plastic that is divided into two compartments: one for current use and one for resting and composting. There is a urine diverter inside that pipes the liquid into an external 25 litre container or soak away, depending on your situation.
There are two large hatches at the back of the box to empty from, and a vent pipe. Each chamber has a larger capacity than the wheelie bin, which has the advantage of needing to empty it less often, although it is not as easy to empty as the bin. However, by the time you come to empty a full chamber, the solids should have turned into odourless compost and not be unpleasant to handle.
Free Range Loo Buildings
We have designed a range of compost toilets for sale to suit most occasions, from the compact Bog Standard to the spacious Disabled Access and posh Timber Arc toilets.