Essential composting toilets: A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

by Gord Baird (Author), Ann Baird BSc (Author)

Essential composting toilets: From waste stream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems.

Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings.

Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.

Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes:

Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos

Coverage of all main composting toilet systems

Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details

Design and installation details.

Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.

This book begins with the most basic question of whether compost toilets are suitable for you (or your client).

From there, we explore the importance of regulation and the biology of composting and pathogen death, with the primary goal being safety.