If you’ve been to a festival, gone on a rural getaway or spent any time with eco-minded people in the past few years, you may have noticed a small revolution taking place in lavatories around the UK. For those to whom chucking litres of clean drinking water down the toilet on each flush seems wildly at odds with attempts to protect the environment and slow the climate emergency, compost toilets are increasingly making sense.
The idea is simple: treat human waste just as other organic matter – in a not dissimilar way to how kitchen waste is composted.
With the increasing number of water scarce countries this may have to become a serious option to consider as a lot of water is wasted by flushing toilets with very fresh drinking water. Just by re-using water caught in the shower and using it to flush the toilet, we managed to save a lot of water at home. It just shows how much drinking water we just wast daily. We used to have an abundance of water 10+ years ago… those days are now long gone and will not return.
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#^The no-flush movement: the unexpected rise of the composting toilet
We squander masses of clean water flushing away our own waste instead of using it as fertiliser. But a lavatorial eco revolution has now begun