Dry Flush Toilets

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Not sure why there would be a problem if waste isn't disposed immediately (guests is a whole different story). Using pine cat litter eliminates all odor and separating toilet doesn't need to be emptied for a while, in fact pine pellets have own great natural smell. I only empty once in 5 days but that's only because I'm currently using one fully contained within 5 gallon bucket including urine bottle taking up space, it uses very little space but have to be emptied often. "Compost mixture" (not really compost) gets stored triple bagged in a dedicated plastic crate until a trip to town, no smell issues. I had to stop at a place with public flush toilet and even though it was super clean the flush toilets just seem to be gross overall. That dry flush toilet probably requires expensive bags and powder to boot.
 
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A friend of mine, a number of years ago, bought the bottom section of a Nature's Head composting toilet from their website (abt $200 at the time) & didn't do anything with it, ending up giving it to me. I bought a urine diverter & built the top section for it out of some wood flooring, a piece of 5/8" ply, a 90 deg black ABS fitting (to attach the vent hose), & attached a toilet lid. It works like a charm & doesn't stink, even when taking a dump, due to the tiny 12v muffin fan used to extract moisture n such from the toilet. abt 1-1/2mo of daily use leaves less than 1 cubic ft of broken down dry'ish poo/coconut coir/TP that I dump into a garbage bag n sling into a Smithrite. It only has a not particularly pungent peat-like odor.
 
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