Essential Composting Toilets: A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

Transform Waste into a Resource with Safe, Efficient Composting Toilets Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Composting Toilets is the practical guide to designing, installing, and operating water-saving, environmentally friendly toilet systems. Learn how to turn human waste into compost while improving hygiene, reducing water use, and increasing resilience in homes or small buildings.

What You'll Learn

• Water Conservation and Cost Savings: • Minimize water use and reduce reliance on septic systems or municipal sewage.

Resource Recovery: • Safely compost waste into usable soil amendments while maintaining health and safety standards.

System Selection Made Simple: • Compare composting toilet types, ventilation strategies, urine separation, and new build versus retrofit applications.

Design, Installation, and Operation: • Step-by-step guidance, drawings, and photos make planning and building your system clear and achievable.

Professional Yet Accessible: • Ideal for DIYers, homeowners, designers, consultants, and water conservation advocates.

Written by Gord and Ann Baird, award-winning permaculture designers and sustainable building experts, this guide blends research, regulation compliance, and hands-on experience to make composting toilets a viable option for any home, whether urban or rural.

Explore the full Sustainable Building Essentials series for illustrated, step-by-step guidance on natural and sustainable building systems, high-performance homes, and environmentally responsible construction.

© 2018 New Society Publishers (E-bog): 9781771422604

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E-bog: 27. november 2018