"Pam Moore" wrote in message
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 21:24:05 +1100, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message

Kathy, please can you give me a brief description of your composting
toilet? Our committee were aghast when I suggested such a thing.
They are talking of the cost of installing a proper flushing toilet.
Then they suggested an Elsan type and someone asked who would clean
it. They still weren't convinced when I said the composting goilet
would not need much cleaning.

Composting toilets are fairly common in parts of Australia where there is
limited water.

Here is an Australian government site that gives some useful information:
http://www.yourhome.gov.au/technical/fs77.html
(You might have to find a committee member who has travelled and can rise
above making comments about convicts)

I am a committee member, but cannot convince the others!

A friend of mine was a neighbour of Adam Hart-Davis. he had a
straw-bale composting toilet in his back garden and encouraged male
visitors to use it. You pee on the straw and when the straw breaks
down you use the resulting compost and replace the bale. Solid waste
is more difficult!!! Sadly A H-D has moved to Devon so I can't get
her to ask him for me. Can't find anything that simple on Google. I
have been looking.
All I envisage is a few bales, with fencing round.

PS I've found an email address for A H-D and have contacted him,
Don't know whether it's still a current email.

Pam, I was down the lottie today and had a look at the loo - no committee
members in sight! Ours was made by NATSOL www.natsol.co.uk
Hope that helps. but it's def more up market than straw bales. I have a
feeling the council wouldn't have approved of that anyway. For what it's
worth, said council gave us a grant towards it from their 2010 Parks and
Amenities budget. We probably got in just in time.

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Kathy