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2. Clivus Multrum - Wikipedia

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   Clivus Multrum is a type of composting toilet and the name of a company that markets this brand name of composting toilets. "Clivus" is Latin for incline or slope; "multrum" is a Swedish composite word meaning "compost room", thus a "Clivus Multrum" is an inclined compost room. [1]

3. Composting toilet - Wikipedia

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   Composting toilets have also been called "sawdust toilets", which can be appropriate if the amount of aerobic composting taking place in the toilet's container is very limited. [5] The " Clivus multrum " is a type of composting toilet which has a large composting chamber below the toilet seat and also receives undigested organic material to ...

4. Compost - Wikipedia

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   Most composting toilets use no water for flushing and are therefore called "dry toilets". In many composting toilet designs, a carbon additive such as sawdust, coconut coir, or peat moss is added after each use. This practice creates air pockets in the human waste to promote aerobic decomposition. This also improves the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio ...

5. Treebog - Wikipedia

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   A treebog is a type of low-tech compost toilet. It consists of a raised platform above a compost pile surrounded by densely planted willow trees or other nutrient-hungry vegetation. It can be considered an example of permaculture design, as it functions as a system for converting urine and feces to biomass , without the need to handle excreta.

6. Reuse of human excreta - Wikipedia

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   The nutrients in compost from a composting toilet have a higher plant availability than dried feces from a typical urine-diverting dry toilet. The two processes are not mutually exclusive, however: some composting toilets do divert urine (to avoid over-saturation of water and nitrogen) and dried feces can still be composted. [37]

7. Arborloo - Wikipedia

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   An arborloo is a simple type of composting toilet in which feces are collected in a shallow pit and a fruit tree is later planted in the fertile soil of the full pit. Arborloos have: a pit like a pit latrine but less deep; a concrete , ferrocement or other strong floor; a superstructure (toilet house or outhouse ) to provide privacy; and ...

8. Container-based sanitation - Wikipedia

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   Example of a toilet used in a container-based sanitation system (urine-diverting dry toilet as marketed by the NGO SOIL in Haiti under the name of "EkoLakay")Container-based sanitation (abbreviated as CBS) refers to a sanitation system where toilets collect human excreta in sealable, removable containers (also called cartridges) that are transported to treatment facilities. [1]

9. List of composting systems - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of composting systems: ... Composting toilet; Container composting; Ecuador composting method; Hot container composting; Hügelkultur a.k.a. German mound;