I'm sure that we used a caravan club site a number of years ago which had a composting toilet. Wareham?? I don't know whether it still does, but that was a long drop type. Excellent idea for more remote locations.
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Yes Crossways CC site have them, I have used them on three previous stays at the site and are about to go there for 21 Nights next month. I do not have any problems using them, just be sure to leave any valuables in the caravan eg watch, car keys for obvious reasons
Visit the place (or go to the website for) called the Centre for Alternative Technology at Machynlleth in Wales. They do courses on compost toilets, have books about them, have various ones for visitors to use.
Quote: Originally posted by cheethama on 01/6/2019
Thanks for replies. Composting toilets do not need emptying, the ground absorbs and re cycles. This is what I need to know more about.
Those are not the sort of composting toilets I have used or my friend makes.
All the ones I have used you "do your business" into a container of some kind, and generally cover the "output" with a handful of soil or straw. That pile gradually builds up and depending on type is either dig out or the container is emptied onto a compost pile to further decay. The latter is especially true of the composting toilets fitted to boats.
I'm not even sure that the type you are proposing would be legal.
I suggest you look at this site and perhaps talk to the owner:
I thought 'old fashioned privies' filled up as the composting time was slower than the rate the average human fills them. So they need to be dug out or a new hole dug and the 'privy shed' moved.
During a B&B weekend I borrowed 'Herefordshire Privies by Paddy Ariss' (I kid you not!) from the breakfast room. Very interesting
I have used loads on different campsites and only one was grim. That one was on a raised platform and the compost area was encased in a wall of straw sandwiched together with chicken wire. The straw had all slipped down and rats could run in and out of the compost area - and they did.
Usually the toilet shed is up two or three steps, and I think there is either a 'long drop' hole in the ground, that presumably then gets filled in, or there is some sort of container.
The ones I really don't like are the ones that seek to separate wee and everything else, there is a sort of basket affair at the front of the toilet bowl.
I stayed at the Loch Ossian Scottish youth hostel 10 or more years ago and it was the hole in the ground type compost toilet.
I expected it to be smelly but quite the opposite, more so than some public toilets I have used.
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Topic: Compost Toilet
