Liquids naturally evaporate over time, and these toilets provide enough aeration to escape outside without the compost pile coming completely dry. Newer systems can also include heating elements that ...

A dry-compost ing toilet doesn’t use water to take the excrement somewhere else. Instead, it allows natural processes to breakdown waste to produce organic compost that is used to enrich the ...

Composting toilets work by separating liquid and solid ... and the carbon-rich substance will do two things. Firstly, it will ...

By 1596, a flushing toilet had been patented by Sir John Harrington but didn’t become popular until much later. Image caption, An earth closet is better known today as a composting toilet.

Tess Johnson-Kelly took to Instagram to spill the beans on how she keeps her soil rich by collecting the family's feces from the special compost toilet in their home. This means that instead of ...

It’s 8.30am in London and 8.30pm in Auckland. Gosia Piatek’s attention is suddenly diverted from our Facetime interview by a ...

Home composting is an easy and effective way to deal with garden waste and food scraps from your kitchen. Bugs and microbes found naturally in the soil in your garden break down this waste to make ...

A Taranaki garden festival that highlights working with nature - rather than against it - is celebrating its 10th anniversary ...

That said, it struggles with sticky or fibrous foods like watermelon or celery, so for that type of kitchen waste compost, I recommend adding dry scraps or coffee grounds for better results.

An additional bed is found in the roof. There is apparently more space inside, providing room for a removable dry-composting toilet behind the front seats. There’s a foldable table inside ...