Composting Toilets: How Do They Work?
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very interesting, I am here from tiny homes on youtube lol
Ayay multifandom me too 😩 am now addicted to watching tiny homes
Me too, wanted to know how those composting toilets work
Ayay multifandom me to
@@tegalicociousmy wife is now taking issue with me. definitely addicted too. lol
Me to dwllll
Who else come from living big in a tiny house?
ive always wondered how do they work! Im dreaming of owning and living a tiny house in the future!
@@augusthine me too, a tiny house with a swimming pool
I did.
Me! I've never heard of this before. It's like a kitty litter box.
so, it's basically a large kitty litter box... 🤔🤔
L allen ...that's what I said!
I have a cat... and that is what I said. "give it a twirl" :/
It's a human litterb ox but I'm not sure how to train my humans into using this.
Someone could also use the medical toilets that has the adjustable leg braces, a 5 gal bucket with liquid separator. Those will even help ya get up when you're done.
@@marcushennings9513 Good for arthritis patients!
My favorite part is when he said "after you're done, you give it a few quick cranks with the handle", as if I'm baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, or something.
You don't need to go to the distance past, in many countries right now, in the present, people are going either in a hole in the ground or an outhouse. So, consider yourself privileged. I'm thinking of getting one of those toilets because I pay so much for water and sewage where I live that I am going to end up asking for alms. I think that people in these Gov
Agencies eat money.
Exactly the video I was looking for. Nobody explains how the solids and liquids separate, that's the most important part! Now I'm comfortable with getting one. I thought it was some sort of drip-dry system, where the pee soaks through the poop in the tank and eventually settles out at the bottom somehow lmao
The urine has a handle, but t seems awkward to dump the poop. I hope they've improved this in the last 4 years!
You had me at terlet!
You are fantastic and adorable!
I will be getting one in a couple years when I become a traveling nurse and make a tiny home
Lol yup yup ...lemme shew u this terlet har
As someone who is poopaphobic this is my nightmare.
is that a thing?
You had me at poopaphobic rofl!
same lol
So you don't poop???????????!!!!!!!
I think you mean scataphobic. You're welcome.
Suppose you want to do one and two at the same time?
lol I have the same question and more but NO ANSWERS. All instructional videos talk about ONLY the mechanics of the composting part of the toilet - not the bowl!
Then you close and open the lid at the same time😂😂😂
Pee first then shit.
Best to do 1 or 2 and hold the other.. ie do 1 or 2 but just don't do both at the same time..
consistently loyal 81, just chickens do both in the same time, are you a chicken?
Wait . But I pee and poop at the same time. What am I supposed to do then?
It's going to be good for emergency shelters!
I wish they made one we could put the trash bag in first and jest add material on top of solids each use and throw away by simply lifting the bag out and dumping it. Super simple
Perhaps a DIY project. Use a bucket with bag for the poop. Have a "toilet tank" of wood shavings instead of water. Bottle and funnel for urine.
The good thing is as soon as you take off the top part to dump the bottom part you instantly have a place to barf. I wonder if barf composts.
This comment is way underrated. I would probably barf with every use LOL.
I know I'm a year late but...LoL
Hmm. Barf is very acidic. It would lower the ph for those acid loving plants! Human/carnivore waste is not recommended for vegetable gardens because of meat eating microorganisms can be harmful to us. I wonder if we ate vegan if that would be different?
I want to thank every single one of you, who made comments below, that made me laugh out loud reading them! Hilarious!
Can we get a demo please !
Very informative thank you
I'll take the top of the line model, please -- the Turdmaster Deluxe.
The Ferguson! Al Bundy.
LoL
Thanks for the video only 2nd one I've seen both very informative.
You guys are all just too funny! Especially the comments about a place to barf, using Pam, and an all natural vegan cruelty free diet. 🤣 It’s been a long, long time since I’ve laughed that hard. It’s nice to know that some people in this country still have a sense of humor.
Amen! I think this toilet would be closely guarded by parents around Halloween, to make sure the kiddies aren't using the contents for 'Treat' part of Trick or Treat! LOL
Serious question though, what if you’re not a marksman with number two’s?
Or what if it's a steak night protein log. No water to take it down.
I like the idea of a composting toilet and hope to get one someday once I've secured my own project RV.
I kind of question though, whether any actual composting is going on. Composting is a complex process involving a lot of biological activity, bugs, fungus, rot, the right amount of moisture and heat. Lots of heat. None of that occurs in a composting toilet. It's a misnomer.
I think the actual principle they are based on is desication. The solid waste is mixed into a dry substrate and is dried further through ventilation. Once dry, there's minimal smell.
Composting hasn't occurred. Desication has occured.
interesting observation
Yeah there actually are some true composting toilets that involve all of that but this ones kinda wack
You're really just going in a bag that goes in the garbage l.
But where would you dump the waste when u clean it? Would u take the urine bottle and just pour it out outside?? Or do people carry that bottle into a public restroom?? And where would u dump the compost part? Like if you were off roading in an RV
Great value!
I suffer from chronic projectile diarrhea. Will this still work for me?
That's funny...
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I suffer from the green apple splatters. Should I agitate more often.
Don't dispair. With positive thinking u can slow it to a run and it is far more pleasant. Girls will also like you more. Stay positive.
No. You're hopeless.
These guys are nuts... imagine seeing the 2 of yesterday
but so doesnt the shallow bowl basically create a "splatter" situation for men...actually men and women both, even sitting, wont the pee hit the surface and splatter upwards? that seems awful
South Africans (Cape Town)are considering this option as they are running out of water.
If it works why don't we have this in all personal homes? Like why haven't they sent this to India that has so many human waste issues?!
Californians should be considering it too! Gavin Newsome is going to punish them with FINES for using too much water.
@@paulseverson2307 Gavin newsome should go inside of this cause thats what he is!
cape town sits on the far southern coastline of africa, you not telling me they caint pump sea water and use it for sewage purposes.. i call that bullshit.. they need to learn from the romans 1500 century or the egyptions had running water in a desert..lol im sure history has others too.. africa mite want to reconsider letting go of a lil more diamonds, rubys, emerolds and gold to pay for it all..lol not like they dont have it
sorry didn't pick up on what compost material you need to buy but sounds impressive
that's great a great solution!
Thank You
So... Basically a 5 gal bucket plus about $10 worth of materials and some dirt sand or other similar material would do the same thing at 5% of the cost... 10% if you go with a cushion seat....
Thanks for the tips. I'll build my own
dont forget to call it 'original' too
Check out the youtuber "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy" . He has a video explaining their 5 gallon bucket composting system, where and how to compost the material and what to do for sanitation.
I’ll be buying one when I get the bus!
So cool!
Can I use this in my garage conversion
got one works surprisingly well without odor. I used the urine on non food plants windbreak trees well made for rural apps good takes along time to fill, the solid breaks down amazingly.
Thank you for your insightful input! Is there anything extra you do to prevent odors or does the toilet itself keep it all contained?
What do you do with the solids when you empty it? Just throw it in the trash? Thanks!
what do you do with the TP?
You know it works great because he says terlet instead of toilet
@@jillblucher9484 the solids turn into dirt...u dump the dirt
Been seriously looking into these but this is the 1st time I heard the warranty for 5yrs? I would've thought for the price it would be longer... What is covered, since very little mechanics? the optional 110 (for homes I assume), is there an extra cost to that as well? I would also note that other reviews have mentioned the use of compost bags which I think is better than trash bags. Kind of defeats the "composting " no? But I guess if throwing in a dumpster or trash that would be preferable. Not being a naysayer just gathering info. Thank u for the video.
The Terd Ferguson model is warranted for 10 years.
Having read some of the comments, has it occurred to these people, that in the not-so-distant past, toilets and sewage plumbing did not exist? How do you think people back then got rid of all their poop and urine? People came to collect it and they composted it in huge piles and then used it for farming! This video simply shows you an invention which makes it easier to manage at the "home" level". Of course it's going to smell. You don't think that when you vent the smell out the tubes they provide you with to the outside it'soccasionally going to get blown right back in with the breeze through your windows? LOL!
So why am I here watching this? I'm a newbie prepper living in a high rise apartment who has identified my own sewage as my biggest problem in a long term SHTF. When water and sanitation services go to crap, pun intended, your personal crap in all the corners of your home will kill you in a matter of weeks. Even if you have stockpiled a year's worth of food, you won't be alive to eat it, if you can't get your shit together, again, pun intended.
Of course it's disgusting. That's what poop and pee is.
Pigs used to eat this waste. The sixties still had buildings that allowed waste to drop to the pigs. Possibly has not changed in parts of the world.
Ok but we aren't in the old days before flushing toilets ! And if the plumbing stopped working you could still poop outside so it didn't kill you in your house! Wow!
How do you think the plague happened?
Nope! They either shit and left it where it is or they buried it.
@@CH-rp1zl From fleas
What if loose motion ?
where do you dump it?
I'm getting an RV and will dry camp for the winter. I will take small garbage bags and layer them in the toilet. Pick up 2 after each use and tie them and put in trash and empty each day. Cheap & EASY.
the plastic bags arent good for the earth tho and that will be a lot of bags your buying just to shit and piss in. defeats the purpose of clean living...
The hole for the solid droppings seems small. What do you do when your droppings hit the sides of it? How do you wash it clean?
practice your aim? LOL
hahahaha
THANK YOU. No answers?? I'm not buying it.
jodi8727 What if you have diarrhea?
Spray the inside with pam and let it all slide right in.
Would kitty litter work in it.?
I love the nature safe toilit!
How well does it handle a straight non-stop 3 foot fecal walking cane?
Very cool- tempted to move into a van just so I can use one🤓
rent is too high. do the van life
How much?? Website doesn't say either 😒
Do show us the compost, how much to use, and where we may purchase it
Apparently there's no job to big or too small for this toilet. There's just one add-on missing that I can see and that's a spinner wheel to see who gets to clean it every month. Lastly, since there's no water in the bowl, how do you clean that?
What about toilet paper?
srsly don't throw them in toilets even if it's flushing.
How much are these composting torlettes??
For some reason I’m imagining this being something like a kitty litter box for adults. 🤦🏽♀️😂🤷🏽♀️
what about bad odor?
Nereden alabilirim?
I think I’m going to put one of these in my pool house I made out of a 10x20 shed. Then the compost can help my garden
Price?
What do you do with the compost? Is it good for anything?
Mostly just for composting
how long you have to used it before it's time to replace.
6-8 weeks for 2 people before you have to change out the poop.
Pee has to be dumped more frequently.
If I had an rv, I’d want this
What of your havanas are the size of popeyes forearm?
Well, on the plus side it doesn't require plumbing. So it's a nice -solution- patch for situations of poverty (homeless/refugees).
On the negative side, people do have diearrea, and the smell vents each time you open the hatch, and I don't see how you intend to keep it clean without a shower spray in reach.
So in short it's a crossover of dark ages and new age.
Can you use sawdust in one of those instead of peat moss or coco coir ?
or cedar wood chips. might be better
I’m planning on buying a small piece of land and building an off grid cabin. Compost toilet, solar generator for charging phone, lights, etc. mainly trying to live without much electricity. Wood burning stove/chimney for winter. Maybe eventually get chickens and start homesteading
If I'm camping, I'd rather do it in the woods
What if you eat at Del taco and your solid becomes a liquidish? This is a serious question.
After you poop in toilet then when you want to poop again, do you poop on your previous poop or it disappears like in flushing toilets?
the base is peat moss or coco coir...when the turning handle is used...the peat moss covers it...so we do not see it on top....after emptying it every few days, it needs to filled with peat moss or coir till the line he shows in the video...
When he proudly grips his 'tourlet' @ 3:12
Yes a good one . Where the hell can i puke when i had to much to drink or when the boat is to rocky?
Really question- what about when you get the mud butt
So when it’s full you dump it over the neighbors fence?
What do you do with the urine?
Drink it
How does this not smell?
this uses coconut fiber and sphagnum moss, that’s what i use in my scorpion terrarium 😎
So you know you're all good if you ever have the urge to pinch one off into your scorpion tank. :)
It's like a kitty litter box...sorta!
How do you avoid nice 4 week compost from being contaminated by today's waste
you dump it in a compost pile and wait to use it when the last poop has had time to compost
What about the n°2 smell? Because the waste stay there for like a month...
You could always use poopourri.
The compost mixture you keep in the tank traps the scent
I've heard the only smell can be occasionally urine, but If you spray a bit of vinegar water in the pee side it goes away. The composting literally turns it into dirt. The pure nasty is when urine and poop mix bacteria has a problem breaking it down. People have said emptying the Blackwater tank with all the gross connections is way worse then having to dump pee, or change compost
Dump more often.... But where - idea of giving it to the garbage man is irresponsible
the smell mostly comes from the moisture. this thing separates the piss. so the shit goes straight into the compost mix, and gets dried out.
as for tossing it in the trash, there is nothing inherently wrong with that. if you have nowhere to toss it, put it in a trash bag and dispose of it that way.a bit of dried out poop and sawdust or whatever you use wont hurt a garbage dump. as for the piss, you can empty it every week if you wanted to.
This makes sense. If I’m camping and it’s late I want to be able to just go close to my camping space. No thank you for going in the woods
These work great until you have a stomach bug lol, then they are a chore to keep clean.
Could I use a composting toilet in my home? I have a older home with plumbing problems. Could I remove the 'house's toilet and use this instead? It would be Sooo much cheater that getting plumbing fixed.
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What is wrong with you women? Call the damn plumbing company.
Many comments complaining about using this as the bowl would need to be cleaned or that its too expensive, fair enough, but are many of you seriously complaining that this doesn't let you piss while standing up?? How is that even a complaint? Like lets say pretending that was the only "disadvantage", you wouldn't use this? Plus I'm sorry but peeing while standing although common is just fucking disgusting for many reasons to begin with
@WakinTheDeadFan because she cant do it
Why do people need to use electricity for/with the toilet?
Have to fumble to many moving parts, you're bound to get 💩 on you! 😜 🤣 😄
Just give me something, where I press a button, grab the bag & dump out the 💩
The rate at which some of us eat ń poop, that thing will be full in 24 hours, talk less of 60-80 days 😃
That is a one good way to usually our own waste! But one thing I don't understand is why have the pee a poop separated, which to although make compost it takes moisture. Which our pee would keep it moist..
natures earthly way
what happens when you urinate and poop at the same time - it happens a lot. I suppose the bucket needs to be emptied then. Also what happens when you have runny poop or spray poop - it happens too. Not looking forward to my new home with composting toilet and no window only exhaust fan. Would rather have an outdoor 'long drop' (Aussie from down under)
This looks like my worst nightmare
That’s really not bad maintenance wise. Not sure what I was expecting but this is about as much hassle as cleaning the litter box. 🤷🏼♀️
A toilet with an organic bag inside should be invented. It'd ease the cleaning.
If it's truly odorless as you claim here, why the fan & hose to vent it to the outside?
Yes!! That's exactly right. WE WANT ANSWERS, PEOPLE!!!!!
Duh....that's what makes it odorless. Use your brain.
Helps it dry out.. which is the key to composting toilets remaining odourless, hence the urine diverter.
@@Phantomine11 Okay, thanks.
I worked for septic company. You are making this sound Great. But no. Pee where are you dumping that. Poop unless it’s been fully cleaned of bacteria poop is considered hazardous material. You are just throwing it away like a regular garbage bag. I think some questions need to be asked. Just out for a walk dumping my pee that hasn’t had any sterilizing done to it. So now we care about are World so we are going to dump maybe STD , HIV , Hepatitis C where ever you dump the pee at. What about the poop bag it and just throwing in the garbage with the same diseases in it.
Cholera is just around the corner.
I’m grossed out by this toilet lol and I’m sure there are infections you can get from this type of human waste lol but HIV is definitely not one of them. That is only transmitted in certain body fluids ( semen, vaginal fluid, blood and breast milk) and even so it can only live out of the body for so long.
people have been trashing soiled diapers for a long time...it is all over the landfill... atleast with peat moss or coco coir, it gets disintegrated and becomes compost....
Nobody is catching HIV or Hep C from pee and poop 🙄
I hope you have educated yourself since this ignorant comment
I really would have liked to see inside the bowl, to see how it separates the pee and poop. You only showed us the hatch for the poop...
Although this is obviously good and poo being used as compost used to happen before plumbing came along, being raised with a normal toilet, I couldn't convince myself to use this, no way in hell
Umario 251 obviously this is not intended for every home, but it's perfect for off grid locations where mains drainage is not available, a holiday cabin for example.
Spoiled softie
you might not have a choice in the near future
Being as I recently bought a plot of land and plan to put a cabin on it, I either have two options. Go traditional and spend who knows how many thousands of dollars getting the water well drilled, hooked up, septic tank or sandmound put in and the general maintenance and septic emptied over the years to come or spend a K and get this.
I can live with the occasional smell and emptying of this compost toilet over spending 1000s and 1000s of dollars in which case to me is just unnecessary.
a trash bag can be used as a protective layer on the toilet and inside a paper shopping bag can be used for extra protection...which is also compost easy....that way we do not have to touch....
humans create the most waste on Earth but we are disgusted by cleaning it and finding a remedy...this composting option is way better than flushing which wastes gallons and gallons of water per flush and we have to clean the toilet bowl anyway with harsh chemicals which causes even more pollution.... any action to save Mother Nature, is a great way to protect our future generations and ourselves along the way....share and care....it is our world afterall...
Me: We should get this for our van
My brother: I just need a shovel and a cave.
Me: Once you're in the cave I'm leaving you for good.
My brother: What's did the guy say his website was?
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100% getting a black tank now.
Lost me at "men should sit when taking a piss".. I'll just piss outside
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@@Tmpr77 right I'm not sitting down for shit I'll stand up and piss in the shower or sink he have me messed up
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can i put composting worms in the solids bin?
That’s a good idea. I wonder if that would work?
All videos that I have seen regarding how composting toilets work show how to deal with the composting part of the system. What about the bowl? How do people clean up the potential mess??? Is there any water involved? What about toilet paper? Where does that go???
They ship a small spray bottle with each toilet, use a little vinegar and water if you need to clean the bowl. It uses no water. Toilet paper can go in the bin, best to use RV or camping paper as it composts much faster..
@@naturesearthlyway2774 when you say toilet paper can go in the bin, what do you mean? In the toilet bin? Or in a garbage bag separate from the bin?
@@ElizaDolittle It can go in the toilet bin. Best to use RV or camping toilet paper as it breaks down much faster.
Natures Earthly Way can I use a bidet when using a composting toilet?
I was looking for a way to spill shit & piss everywhere once a month. This is great!
WHAT IF YOU ATE WHITE CASTLES THE NIGHT BEFORE AND YOU SPRAY SH*T ON THE BACK OF THE BOWL?
It’s an indoor porta-potty. No thanks!