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Changing the Potty: Out with the old, in with the new *TRIGGER WARNING: graphic content The whole idea of a composting toilet means you are going to be far more acquainted with your inner workings than most people. I’ve had to make sure about keeping solids and liquids separate. This is done by opening a “trapdoor” pretty much under the bum for solids to drop into, then closing the door when going number 1. Tissue or TP goes into the solids bin. This actually doesn’t breakdown as rapidly as the poo and, therefore, when emptying the toilet is mostly what I’m seeing. For me the process of emptying the solids bin has to be reckoned with about every 6 weeks. I know when that is coming up by the tension placed upon the agitator and a “fill” line. Let me explain. After adding to the solids bin, I will with my foot rotate an agitator bar with in the bin that gives everything a good stir. I give it 3 or 4 rotations, mixing everything up. At first it is like gliding through cloud, but a...

Changing the Potty: Nature’s Head Toile  *TRIGGER WARNING: graphic content  I realize that some readers may be coming to my blog because of Tiny House content. We are a small (tiny) Tiny House community. Today’s post will be about the Nature’s Head Composting toilet. To be more exact—emptying out the basin that holds the composting material and poo, otherwise referred to as solids. As I was considering my move into the Tiny House, I deliberated between a composting toilet and adding on a small room just as a bathroom, but as time and money got away from me and I really wanted to get moving (sorry for the pun) I chose a waterless composting toilet. Nature’s Head came up in my Google. I liked that they were a made in the USA company AND made in Ohio, my home state. Friends of mine who also had Tiny houses mentioned they used a waterless toilet with a two compartment system. Meaning wets and solids are kept separately. Believe it or not—it is the urine that smells, so ...