chillyrodent

Better than you might imagine

Pros: Extreme water savings, self-contained system, odor control
Cons: You have to admit you poop.
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Nature's Head Self-Contained Composting Toilet

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Purchase Price: $900.00

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We have been using ours full-time for about five months.  Upsides are what you would expect:

  • Waterless = radical savings of resources (we live in a motorhome)
  • Self-contained
  • Construction seems durable

 

Unexpected upsides:

  • Relatively high capacity in composting vault (about 6-8 weeks of use for two people who go to work part-time)
  • No odor

 

The "pee bucket" must be dumped every 2-3 days of full-time use.  Urine smells.  Sorry, haven't found a way around that.  It smells when we pee into drinking water, too, but then it is removed from our presence and no longer offends our sensibilities.  If you know a way around this, I want to know.  No, I NEED to know!  Please tell me.

 

Edit:  For two people at full-time usage, holding time is more like two weeks.  Clean-out is inoffensive, even if it has been used the same day.

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Steve Miller 2/21/11 at 1:33pm
A friend has an airhead and says putting an unspecified amount of sugar in the urine tank takes care of the oder. I,ve been in his head and smelt no odors at all
stins 2/24/11 at 11:49am
Hahaha, I love your "con"! Sounds like Steve's tip with the sugar may do the trick. I'd be interested to hear if that helps with your Nature's Head.
chillyrodent 2/24/11 at 12:01pm
Well, you two, I'll give it another try with the sugar. We started out with it, but now that we understand how bad it can smell, we may find that sugar actually is an improvement. To be honest, we've gotten used to the smell, and it may be objectively just as bad now, just subjectively better.