You don’t need to purchase a commercial composting toilet to safely recycle human waste. A simple setup of a bucket, seat and sawdust — giving these toilets the name “sawdust potties” — will do. We ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

You might think it odd that we’d start an article about compost toilets by stating that no such thing exists. But they don’t. Composting is a specific process, one that occurs under specific ...

Plants grow around a golden toilet in a garden used to demonstrate the utility of recycled wastewater. (Photo by Loren Elliott / AFP) Environmentally friendly compostable toilets are increasingly ...