I have read much about composting and composting toilets and looked at/read everything Lehmans sells. I can't build a composting toilet and have no where to put such in my small townhouse if I bought one - gave up on that idea. I'm going to have to bury it.
I live in town and that limits me, too. I actually have a stack of large, strong, paper bags and would likely use those in potties instead of plastic bags. Some of these paper bags are made for trash compactor units (have a thin coating of plastic inside them) but most of them are just paper I bought at Kroger. One day I saw these large strong paper bags on the bottom shelf where plastic trashbags are and they are not expensive. I don't recall the price but was surprised it wasn't more.
I actually got them to put regular household trash in. I have an outdoor fireplace and got that to burn trash in. Didn't want to put trash in plastic bags to burn plastic in that fireplace, so got paper bags. I need to get more.
Unless I go live with the Amish, going to have to bury human waste. I'll find a place to dump urine instead of burying it but I don't know now where that will be.
I grew up using an outhouse. We had a shower but no potties. Think I was in 9th grade before we had indoor potties. Now, I have three regular potties in my house - no more outhouses.
I’ve used various kinds of outdoor/alternative toilets, probably for about 7 years all told. My first introduction to the “Humanure” type of composting toilet was in a city house on a small, small city lot. The owners collected chipper shredded stuff from the city and used that in their toilet/bucket, and had two compost bins - square, made of chicken wire or somethign similar and stakes. There was no odor at all, and it all composted fast. So it can be done on a city lot, you just need sawdust/chipper shredder stuff or something to lay down after each human deposit in the bucket. It helps to have a number of buckets and line them outside.
Urine is a different thing; pouring down a street drain, maybe? Making a small trench to put it in?
We used a 5 gal bucket (well, we had a number of them) for a composting toilet, hub built a little frame with an attached toilet seat, and we slid the bucket underneath it. I would think if you have room outside to bury it, you might have room to make a compost bin and have a pile of stuff to compost with it. We have a sawmill nearby and got a good load of log sawdust; we’ve also used chipper shredded stuff which works just as well, but it takes up more room.
Humanure is online, I would recommend it to anyone who is considering what to do with excrement if the city or town sewage system doesn’t work. Also on rural homes with wells, it’s a big waste of water to use flush toilets if there is no electricity to pull the water out of the well; and even septic tanks sometimes get full.