Essential Composting Toilets
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Essential Composting Toilets
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Essential Composting Toilets
Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.
From waste-stream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems
From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems.
Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings.
Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes:
- Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos
- Coverage of all main composting toilet systems
- Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details
- Design and installation details
Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.
Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series
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Essential Composting Toilets by Gord and Ann Baird is praised for providing a comprehensive guide on eco-friendly waste management. The book is appreciated for its practical advice, easy-to-understand explanations, and detailed illustrations. Readers commend the authors for combining technical knowledge with accessible language, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced users interested in sustainable living solutions.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780865718722
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 November 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Illustration: 24 Plates, color; 65 Halftones, black and white; 30 Line drawings, black and white
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 680g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Gord Baird, BA, ARCSA AP and Ann Baird, BSc are the co-creators, designers, and builders of the award winning Eco-Sense home in Victoria, BC, Canada, the first internationally recognized Living Building Challenge petal residential project. They implemented greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets into North America's first legal two-story seismically engineered load-bearing cob home. Gord is Water Commissioner for the Capital Regional District's regional Water Supply Commission and Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission, and was a technical editor for the BC Ministry of Health's Manual of Composting Toilets and Greywater Standard Practices (2016). Ann works on regional climate action initiatives involving water, food, and energy resiliency in climate adaptation and risk management. They currently give tours of their Eco-sense permaculture homestead in Victoria, BC. www.eco-sense.ca.
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