On 02/01/2010 11:52, Pengalanty wrote: > Ahoy There! > > No so quick on banning any threads. > > I actually found an interesting point on toilets just recently, regrading > COMPOSTING toilets. It seems that the "Fluid" content of effluence, is the > bugbear of composting types on boats, as it's sterile. > > There are at least TWO makes that separate the "wee" and the solids. One > discharges the fluid into a removable plastic shaped largish bottle, (Don't > know the capacity). This seems to be the ideal one for boats. The solids > seem to end up in a cardboard box with a plastic type bin liner, both are > bio-degradable and clean and easy to dispose of. How and where one disposes > of the solids is another matter. > > Does anyone have any experience of this type? I looked into the idea of composting toilets before I settled on Wyrd - all of the ones I looked at either used a heater to dry off the liquid or they allowed it to drain through, to be collected externally - either by a small pump or by gravity - and then be disposed of (in some way or another!), The gravity type sat somewhat higher and thus either needed to be set down into the bilge, to compensate for the extra height, or there was an option of a footstool.
With the liquid disposed of, the 'tame bugs' which were added from a sachet when the loo is commissioned/tray emptied happily munch their way through what is left and the - now odour-free - residue can then be spread on the garden (although it is not recommended for growing foodstuffs in!). Trevor nb.wyrd Still iced in on the K&A somewhere between Pewsey and Wootton Rivers - Day 28 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
