Composting Toilets – Your Solid Waste Equals Garden Fertilizer

Can you believe that your toilet can actually be your source for compost? Toilet composters have been created to reduce the amount of water you use and to solve the issue of getting great fertilizer from what you used to flush away every day. I have not really heard about this one until today. However, there seems to be a big market involving composting toilets.

So these toilet composters look a lot like other toilets, except there’s very little water used. Once you ‘flush’, your waste goes into a holding tank. Here’s a little bit on how it’s supposed to work.

Here’s what I understand. Depending on the type of toilet you get, the waste flows down into a holding tank. The liquids evaporate. The solid bits are broken down chemically until it all turns into oxidized salts. So it’s a lot like regular composting. It all crushes and blends together into fertilizer. So the composting toilet is supposed to be good for your garden.

Not just that, but it’s supposed to be great for the environment as well. An average 4 person household can waste as much as 70 gallons of water in a single day. So using a no water toilet will help eliminate your water bill a whole lot, plus the whole saving water thing which is great.

Companies like Outdora are bring out composting toilets that blend in with your decor as well as doing their job in composting. Compact and they look easy to install. Imagine not having to buy fertilizer, because you are your own fertilizer generator. Awesome!

Even if you don’t grow a garden, imagine the lower water bill. Also, did you know that we waste a lot of clean, drinkable water in our toilets? If you remember anything from environmental science class, you’ll know our water supply isn’t as everlasting as we think of it being. We use more than we can clean every day.

So, maybe the composting toilet is a great response to this. Would you use this?