We've become so used to having running water everywhere, that we forgot how precious water actually is. As the climate is changing, groundwater level goes down, as more and more pieces of land are covered with impermeable concrete, and precipitations becoming less dependable, we could have, as a civilisation, put in place some more ingenious, low-tech solutions for reducing its consumption. Instead, each of us (in the western world) wastes about half our body mass in water daily on washing away our s--t, to be processed and disposed of somewhere else (f--k the environmental costs), while dreaming of a "digital", s--t analysing, probably ad-based iToilet.
This is not the smart toilet. The smart toilet is a toilet that doesn't waste expensive drinking water on disposing of our waste - for example a composting toilet.
We (a family of 4) have been living with a composting toilet for the last 3 years. Yes, it demands more work, and is more suitable for people who spend most of their time at home. It demands more work, emptying the bucket on to the compost pile once a day and bringing in sawdust or wood chips for use as covering material. There's also the maintenance of the compost pile.
The benefits of a composting toilet are numerous: it's much easier to install, needs no hooking up, easier to clean and maintain, you save so much water (about 40 gallons per day in our case), and you get to keep most of the waste from your metabolism in the form of compost, which can be eventually used for growing food, essentially closing a loop of self-sufficiency.
If this interests any of you folks, I'll be happy to answer any questions.
This is not the smart toilet. The smart toilet is a toilet that doesn't waste expensive drinking water on disposing of our waste - for example a composting toilet.
We (a family of 4) have been living with a composting toilet for the last 3 years. Yes, it demands more work, and is more suitable for people who spend most of their time at home. It demands more work, emptying the bucket on to the compost pile once a day and bringing in sawdust or wood chips for use as covering material. There's also the maintenance of the compost pile.
The benefits of a composting toilet are numerous: it's much easier to install, needs no hooking up, easier to clean and maintain, you save so much water (about 40 gallons per day in our case), and you get to keep most of the waste from your metabolism in the form of compost, which can be eventually used for growing food, essentially closing a loop of self-sufficiency.
If this interests any of you folks, I'll be happy to answer any questions.