{"id":633,"date":"2023-11-27T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T04:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlantisplumbing.com\/articles\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-01-01T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:29:39","slug":"how-does-a-composting-toilet-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantisplumbing.com\/articles\/how-does-a-composting-toilet-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does A Composting Toilet Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Composting toilets, these days, look like regular toilets. The difference is in how they function and how you use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A composting toilet doesn’t require any flushing. Instead, there are two containers attached to the toilet (one for solid and one for liquid). The liquid automatically goes down some holes at the bottom of the toilet bowl into it’s own container.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solid waste sits in the toilet bowl until you open a flap at the bottom of the bowl which then drops that into a composting bin that is filled with composting material which is usually made up of peat moss, sawdust, soil, pine needles, leaves, grass clippings, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After you’ve used the toilet and dumped your waste material into the bin – there’s a mechanism on the side of the toilet that you turn which stirs the new waste into the composting material. – mixing it all up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use this type of toilet about 60 to 80 times before you need to empty out the compost bin. A note of caution here – if you want to make it easier on yourself to empty that waste bin, we would recommend that you do so at after about 40 uses. That way the bin is not 100% full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The front of the compost toilet should have a separate container for urine. It’s recommended that no liquid go down the back end of the toilet which is where only your solid waste should go. We would recommend that you clean that and that particular container should be cleaned out very frequently because it is much smaller than the main composting bin. It may be helpful to make this a nightly habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be wondering about the “smell” but composting toilets do come with an exhaust fan to move the odor out of the building \/ rv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do You Have To Empty A Composting Toilet?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes, you absolutely have to empty a composting toilet – can’t get away from that chore! Here are some tips on how to best do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n