Emphatically no. You cannot discharge urine into the cut under any circumstances! Our position has always been that it is not only undesirable, but is actually illegal to discharge urine directly into the canal. The same rule applies to many rivers, and we expect that any waterways not currently covered, soon will be. Why? Urine[…]Read more

Eco-Loo compost toilet in a strawbale roundhouse We recently delivered an Eco-Loo Divert 20 to Janta and Merav, who have created a place called Karuna in Shropshire. Although they’ve been resident on the site since 2007, in the last couple of years, they obtained planning permission to build a strawbale, green roof roundhouse. Since moving onto[…]Read more

This doesn’t just work, it works brilliantly! As I write this, it’s been over six weeks since the DIY compost loo became operational, so I feel it’s a good time to take stock and tell you how it’s been performing. A Quiet Revolution In the part 2, I recounted the problems of buffeting from using[…]Read more

The use of a soak material in the solids container is an important aspect of preparing a compost toilet for use, either when new, or when it’s just been emptied. We recommend chainsaw sawdust or fine wood shavings (often sold as pet bedding), because they’re inexpensive (sometimes free), carbon-rich and highly effective. As well as[…]Read more

So in Part One, we ended the blog post with the realisation that a few mistakes had been made! No problem, I always knew this was a prototype and that learning by doing (and making the mistakes) would help me understand the whole process better, but there’s no getting away from the fact that it[…]Read more