You don’t need to purchase a commercial composting toilet to safely recycle human waste. A simple setup of a bucket, seat and sawdust — giving these toilets the name “sawdust potties” — will do. We ...

You might think it odd that we’d start an article about compost toilets by stating that no such thing exists. But they don’t. Composting is a specific process, one that occurs under specific ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

A hands-on build deep in the wilderness showing how to create a simple, functional compost toilet as part of an off-grid living setup.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wooden compost toilet - Cerise Hua/Getty Images When it comes to eco-friendly bathroom solutions, incinerator and compost ...

If you’ve ever been aboard a boat with an enclosed head and holding-tank system, you probably know the smell. Trying to explain it away, I’ve heard some boat owners say, “Well, it smells like a boat.” ...