Essential Composting Toilets

Name: Essential Composting Toilets
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780865718722
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A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

By Gord Baird and Ann Baird

Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series

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Essential Composting Toilets by Gord Baird and Ann Baird is a comprehensive guide that delves into sustainable sanitation solutions. The book explores different types of composting toilet systems, offering practical advice on design, construction, and maintenance. With insights into environmental benefits and regulatory considerations, it aims to empower readers to implement these eco-friendly options effectively in their own homes and communities.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in sustainability and off-grid living, offering practical guidance on eco-friendly waste management. This resource covers various composting toilet systems, making it invaluable for those keen to integrate green practices into their home and garden.

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

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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

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Ann Baird Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Gord Baird Home & Garden Mindset & Self Help New Year, New You Non-Fiction Science & Nature Self-Help & Personal Development Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series

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.