The Compost Toilet Handbook

From the author of The Humanure Handbook, an expert guide to compost toilets you can build yourself

The Compost Toilet Handbook is an illustrated instructional manual explaining how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, which are waste-free toilets relying on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material. It is based on the author's 40+ years of firsthand experience with "composting as a sanitation alternative."

The 254-page indexed book includes 161 pages of colour photos with 203 photos or illustrations from 13 countries where compost toilet systems are in use. The second half of the book features case study reviews of compost toilet projects in African prisons and schools, Haitian schools, orphanages, and villages, schools in Mozambique, neighbourhoods in Mongolia, a school and village in Nicaragua, and an ecovillage in the US.

Along with the nuts and bolts of compost toilet construction, use, and management, the book covers emergency preparedness, cold weather composting, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and health and safety.