I don’t know anything about composting toilets, but I am sure the EPA has them planned for your future.
Why would you want to compost a toilet?
You need a lot of fine wood chips and shavings. Compost toilets are primarily outdoor affairs. They do work, though.
Compost toilets are half off this year at algore.com. jk
One of my sons-in-law had a composting toilet in an outhouse, which he used while the house, septic tank, and proper toilet were under construction. It worked fine, no trouble. But he had to get a special permit for it. That would probably depend on your town and state regulations.
Don’t compost the toilet. They make great targets for twenty twos.
It’s better than using a “honey bucket”
Check out Sun Mar up in Canada. They make composting toilets for homes and boats in a variety of types and capacities.
Why would you want a sewage treatment plant in your backyard?
I researched them on YouTube and found out enough about them to want one for my RV. Search on YouTube and you’ll locate a video by the Winns. They put one in their RV and give a very good presentation on all you need to know about one.
They are considerably more “fun” to use than 1.28 GPF toilets.
Mr. Mercat says: look on YouTube keyword search. The topic is well digested. They range from 5 gallon buckets and sawdust to Forrest Service solar powered industrial strength
Ping.
Going from plumbing to a composting toilet is the equivalent of going from a cell phone to two cans and a string.
They’re great for camping and cabins. The expensive ones work well for RV’s.
You ‘go’, then dump in some sawdust or dried leaves. If you use the nicer ones, the lids seal when they’re closed so that there’s no smell. The *really* nice ones have an exhaust fan that turns on when the lid is lifted.
One person should have to dump the container once a week. So if you have two people, twice a week and so on. You can get one where you pull the container from the outside so you don’t have to carry it through the house.
The contents go into a compost pile and they have to be composted for a full year before use in a garden.
I would absolutely use one under certain circumstances and I’ve even considered it for a guest cabin. (If my guests don’t like it, they can go home.)
Whatever you do, do not get a Wolowitz Human Waste ‘Distribution’ System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZrXuHmrtM
You can’t urinate in them as it disrupts the composting process.
I would suggest going to either boating forums or RV forums to look for good info.
Boat Design Net forums has a search feature for thread topics.
Compost a toilet? Seems to me it would take quite awhile to break down.