The Compost Toilet Handbook

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The Compost Toilet Handbook by Joseph C. Jenkins

Our team of Composting Toilet specialists has over 34 years of combined knowledge in all things DIY and off-the-shelf composting toilets, with Humanure and regular compost, both nomadically and stationary.

But that knowledge didn’t just magically appear to us, we’ve learned, made mistakes, learned some more, bought books and guides and spent hours on Google in incognito mode.

We want you to learn from our mistakes, know where to find useful guides and which books to buy so you don’t have to buy them all. That’s why we’ve introduced the “Products we Love” section, and this book is one of those items!

From the author of the Humanure Handbook comes another classic for off-grid composting toilet builders, users and enthusiasts. Dig into the combined knowledge of everything composting toilet and find the answers to all the questions you didn’t want to show up in your search history.

If you want to have an off-grid toilet and you only want to buy one book, buy this. 

From the publisher:

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 that rely on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material. It is based on the author’s 40+ years of first-hand experience with “composting as a sanitation alternative.” The 254-page indexed book has 161 pages of color photos including 203 photos or illustrations from 13 countries where compost toilet systems are in use. The 2^nd half of the book includes case study reviews of compost toilet projects in African prisons and schools; Haitian schools, orphanages, and villages; schools in Mozambique; neighborhoods 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, health, and safety.