Re: composting toilets

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In a message dated 10/31/99 5:26:54 AM, rnbpaine@camtech.net.au writes:

<<Hello,

Beverley from South Australia here - new to this list. I am researching 
composting toilets at the moment. We already have a clivus multrum we have 
been using successfully for years, but have two small buildings our 
adolescents are using that we'd like to put facilities in for them. Any 
experience out there with low cost appropriate technology composting 
toilets? Or flush toilet systems where the water is used several times? 
Looking forward to some info and discussion.

Beverley>>

Beverly:
    thre is a whole new internet discussion group forming on this theme, 
headed by Jacky Foo.  Unfortunately, I don't have his email address right at 
hand.  If you don't get the info from someone else, check with me around the 
end of this month.   (I'll be away helping my daughter and her husband close 
in their new house before winter, and my internet acess will be expensive 
during that time.   So please wait.)

    the best system for a family is the double vault toilet.   Almost anyone 
on this list can describe it to you.  There is an awful design out of New 
Hampshire with bells, whistles and more moving parts than a carnival, but 
actually they are very simple to design and requre no moving parts except two 
tightly fitting doors on hinges.  

    The composting toilet discussion group came out of a discussion of 
community excreta processing and recycling systems.   There is probably an 
archive.  SOMEBODY on this list likely has Jacky Foo's address.

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