Construction
Our composting toilet is built between two tracks on our land. The photos below should give you a rough idea of the construction process.
The most important thing is to make sure that there are no water sources under the proposed site for your toilet. Humanure can contain pathogens, and you do not want these to contaminate either your or someone else’s water supplies.
The following photos of our toilet being built should give you an idea of what it involves.
The best book we have found for plans and understanding of the structure of a composting toilet is Lifting the Lid, by Peter Harper:
While the best book ever explaining why we should be composting our human ‘waste’ has to be the Humanure Handbook:
You can read the Humanure Handbook online here:
