In fact, in my small community of 800 people, about half live without flush toilets and instead use an outhouse. This means my wife and I venture outside whenever nature calls — even in the winter ...

Composting toilets use aerobic decomposition to break ... A slow system might look and feel much like an old-fashioned outhouse, where you will sit on a toilet seat or bench above a hole or ...

What I didn’t want was some kind of mountain man rig -- a bucket with a toilet seat or an outhouse. I needed to see how one worked. Composting toilets are not difficult to find. Considering how ...

There, plopped between the other conventional stalls, are two “composting toilets,” the first ever installed in a California office building. “You assume you get an outhouse on a trail ...

but someone just told me about composting toilets. Do they smell bad? Will my grandmother use it or ask for an outhouse? Thanks for your wisdom! Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support ...

Composting toilets require vents (and consequently don’t smell, very unlike their quite stinky outhouse predecessors), a heat source to keep the decomposing waste at a steady 75 degrees ...

a water closet or a drainless composting toilet. It's still a challenge; one TreeHugger reader is fighting with the City of Ottawa, which seems to think that she wants to install an outhouse in ...

Some University of British Columbia faculty and staff members originally were skeptical about having a virtual outhouse within a building. But now the composting toilets are accepted and have ...

Clad in blackened timber to recede into the landscape, the contemporary, timber-framed outhouse features a Biolan composting toilet that automatically separates liquid from solids to turn human ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – The composting toilet is adorable ... The late afternoon is swollen with heat, but the outhouse itself is shady and cool, miraculously free of any stink – the stench ...