Loveable Loo Eco-Friendly Compost Toilet
From LoveableLoo.com: The Loveable Loo is a collection toilet for use when composting human manure (“humanure”). You can buy them on the internet at loveableloo.com and this little video shows you how they’re made.
What can you use if you don’t have access to a ton of sawdust?
Fans are totally unnecessary, as is urine separation. These things only complicate and hinder what is a simple process – thermophilic composting. You do NOT want to separate urine when using a thermophilic (hot composting) system. Read the humanure book.
its cute, and well made, but…. saw dust isn’t eco friendly, the debri isn’t isolated when the loo isn’t in use, there is no vent fan, and there is no urine separater. I like that it is made with practical materials but…
urine separator trays are easy to purchase and install.
With the extra depth a simple bath fan could be installed with a switch on the side.
something to consider for the “new and improved” model. forthcoming.
check out separett.com for some ideas.
GROSS!!!!Give me a water toilet ANY DAY!!
This toilet option is far more environmentally sound than a septic tank and leach field.
The tissue composts – any tissue will work.
Great video!! I am curious about the toilet tissue. Does it compost as well or are there versions that do?
It has to be a carbon based material.
just started using mine in my yurt about a week ago and so far it has met the expectations i had from reading others feedback. works great and doesn’t smell!
What about using dirt or sand instead of sawdust?
It seems to be very well made, neat and tidy… compared to most I’ve seen.
@TheBgcheez If you use enough cover material (sawdust, leaf mold, etc.) you have no odor, but that of earthy carbon. Too much nitrogen smell means you need to add more carbon.
No venting is needed.
Would be nice if you had a vent hole and piping configuration to possibly utilize a person’s current bathroom fan hole or window. The vent hole could be in the back with a collar that a purchaser would then attach a PVC pipe to.
The compostable parts of feminine hygiene products will compost. Any plastic parts will not compost and you will have to pick these out of the finished compost.
Can you compost tampons? or do you need to keep that separate?
We have such a toilet(home-made) in our bathhouse, but with a separation for the urine that goes into a plastic container. Makes the bucket really light for carrying outside. It works pretty well, but I wouldn’t say it’s odour free even if we use sawdust, so I would put it outside, in an outhouse or a utility building rather than in a small home, unless you can isolate the toilet space really well. I however find a urine toilet works inside, it doesn’t smell, and I live in a one-room cabin.
so its just a bucket you shit in
this could be well advertised for say fishing ships too! heck, bring one toilet, and a barrel of dirt, and crew’s safe for the trip. no need for power pumping water, no need for plumbers out in the middle of the sea!
@jcjenkins01
thanks for the quick reply!
It can be all urine (see comments below).
boy, i sure do love it!
in a house, it’d be a first choice! this is the future, with less and less water available!
only i think society has to develop a type of culture to do this, but than again, it wouldn’t be a first time – remember how in 19th cent. hygiene was tought to people.
i’d like to ask though: is (only) urinating also ok (besides urin and feces), or is (only) urinating better done someplace else?
thank you, and great job!
bad!!! see a cesar añorve in mexico!! and a woman???
bad!!! see a cesar añorve in mexico!! y las mujerees???
bad!!! see a cesar añorve in mexico!!