Envirolet Waterless Composting Toilet

Many people still flinch at the idea of using composting toilets but these eco-friendly devices have come a long way over the years.

Today’s composting toilets are easy to maintain, orderless and effective in creating enriched soil for gardening use. Not to mention that they can save water usage, chemical sewage treatments and electrical grid pull for you, your local cities and the state that you happen to live in.

Now in talking about composting toilets, we are are not talking about the portable toilets that people use for camping. We are talking about large residential indoors composting toilets. A composting toilet is a way in which to treat human waste by composting and dehydrating the waste to create a enriched soil additive.

Currently, there are two different types of residential composting toilets on the market. The first one is called the batch system, which works by filling up one container and replacing it with an empty one. In the batch system, the composting takes place in the filled and sealed container. The second type of composting toilets are called continual process systems. With the continual process systems, you have a toilet that is always in a stage of constant composting. Both systems break down the waste material through micro and macro organisms for composting, evaporation of moisture and material dehydration. Both systems also have air flow control, which means that if the system is set up correctly there will be no smell at all.

Using composting toilets when going green has a variety of benefits. Here, we’ll take a look at the main benefits derived from switching to these types of toilets:

• Reduce household water usage up to 50%
• Reduce local treatment water storage costs up to 60%
• Eliminate paying water and sewage bills
• Reduce watercourse and marine pollution
• Eliminate raw sewage to groundwater leakage from your home
• Compost food scraps, egg shells, paper and other organic materials to enrich the end product
• Can be placed anywhere, no need for pipes

Another area in which using a composting toilet equates to a good idea is in overall cost. The typical cost of building and implementing a residential toilet system, septic tank and or leach field can cost you up to $20,000 to set up. By using composting toilets, depending on the design and type you choose to use the overall cost can be as low as $1,000.

For more information on composting toilets, their benefits and how people are using them visit the community web site:  Composting Toilet World

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