Composting Toilets: How Do They Work? 

very interesting, I am here from tiny homes on youtube lol

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.

Who else come from living big in a tiny house?

so, it's basically a large kitty litter box... 🤔🤔

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

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

Suppose you want to do one and two at the same time?

As someone who is poopaphobic this is my nightmare.

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

Very informative thank you

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.

I want to thank every single one of you, who made comments below, that made me laugh out loud reading them! Hilarious!

sorry didn't pick up on what compost material you need to buy but sounds impressive

Can we get a demo please !

Thanks for the video only 2nd one I've seen both very informative.

It's going to be good for emergency shelters!

Serious question though, what if you’re not a marksman with number two’s?

Great value!

Wait . But I pee and poop at the same time. What am I supposed to do then?

I suffer from chronic projectile diarrhea. Will this still work for me?

Thank You

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

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.

that's great a great solution!

I'll take the top of the line model, please -- the Turdmaster Deluxe.

So cool!

I’ll be buying one when I get the bus!

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.

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.

These guys are nuts... imagine seeing the 2 of yesterday

How well does it handle a straight non-stop 3 foot fecal walking cane?

Can I use this in my garage conversion

Very cool- tempted to move into a van just so I can use one🤓

Do show us the compost, how much to use, and where we may purchase it

South Africans (Cape Town)are considering this option as they are running out of water.

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?

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.

Would kitty litter work in it.?

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?

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

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

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.

What if loose motion ?

I love the nature safe toilit!

When he proudly grips his 'tourlet' @ 3:12

How much?? Website doesn't say either 😒

what about the residue in the bowl? I imagine you want that cleaned after every use

where do you dump it?

how long you have to used it before it's time to replace.

What if you eat at Del taco and your solid becomes a liquidish? This is a serious question.

If I had an rv, I’d want this

Can you use sawdust in one of those instead of peat moss or coco coir ?

What of your havanas are the size of popeyes forearm?

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

What about toilet paper?

What do you do with the compost? Is it good for anything?

Yes a good one . Where the hell can i puke when i had to much to drink or when the boat is to rocky?

For some reason I’m imagining this being something like a kitty litter box for adults. 🤦🏽‍♀️😂🤷🏽‍♀️

It's like a kitty litter box...sorta!

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?

Really question- what about when you get the mud butt

what about bad odor?

How do you avoid nice 4 week compost from being contaminated by today's waste

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

How much are these composting torlettes??

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

What about the n°2 smell? Because the waste stay there for like a month...

So when it’s full you dump it over the neighbors fence?

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..

Why do people need to use electricity for/with the toilet?

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.

What do you do with the urine?

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...

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.

this uses coconut fiber and sphagnum moss, that’s what i use in my scorpion terrarium 😎

How does this not smell?

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 💩

Nereden alabilirim?

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.

If it's truly odorless as you claim here, why the fan & hose to vent it to the outside?

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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

If I'm camping, I'd rather do it in the woods

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???

100% getting a black tank now.

can i put composting worms in the solids bin?

Price?

These work great until you have a stomach bug lol, then they are a chore to keep clean.

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?

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)

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...

The rate at which some of us eat ń poop, that thing will be full in 24 hours, talk less of 60-80 days 😃

Baaaby shark doo dooot doo doo do

I was looking for a way to spill shit & piss everywhere once a month. This is great!

How do the shit marks get cleaned if there is no water?

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

This looks like my worst nightmare

Why are they so expensive

looks to me its like kitty litter

The bowl will be skid marked for shore. Needs a flushing set up .

just walk in any rest area that dont use water for their urinal's.. the smell will hit you before you reach the entrance..