We-Pee News

We've just returned from a lovely allotment in Islington where we installed one of our disabled access compost toilets. The compost toilet uses one of our urine separators to divert urine away from the solids — the key to keeping the system smell-free. Why disabled access compost toilets matter Allotments and outdoor community spaces have historically been some of the worst-served when it comes to accessible toilet facilities. Mains drainage isn't usually available, plumbed accessible loos are expensive to install, and Portaloos are awkward at best. A composting toilet with a wider footprint, a level threshold and grab rails can...

Urine separating composting toilets are an ideal solution for Tiny House dwellers and there are many people out there making their own composting toilets to fit perfectly into their beautiful small spaces. Here is a link showing how one of our customers used the we-pee separator in their DIY compost loo in Washington State, USA. "Hi, I thought you might enjoy seeing the final product using your separator :) Thanks for making it! My Tiny House is located in Washington state, USA. https://tinyretreat.wordpress.com Elise"

One of our we-pee customers - an ecological wastewater designer and compost toilet builder in New Zealand called Mike - has sent us these photos of a portable composting toilet box he has built with the we-pee urine separator. In this version of the we-pee composting box, the urine is piped directly into a watering can, for use as a fertiliser on the soil. "I’ve attached a few more pics of the loo I made in its final resting place. The colleague I gave it too is one of New Zealand’s foremost wastewater experts. He is passionate about compost loos...

One of the projects we're proudest to have contributed to. Haiyan, a designer-builder in New Orleans, builds self-contained mobile micro-shelters and gives them to homeless people in the city. We donated a urine separator for the composting toilet inside one of the shelters — the email below came back to us shortly after. "Hey Paul, Thank you again for donating the urine diverter to me. Today I gave the shelter away to a homeless person here in New Orleans. Two other homeless people have approached me, so this January I will build another one. I hope to be able to...

One of our favourite institutional builds: the OTIS project from Green Mountain College, Vermont, USA. OTIS stands for Optimal Traveling Independent Space — a self-sufficient tiny dwelling on wheels, designed by students. Tucked inside OTIS's compact toilet area: a We-Pee urine separator. Quietly doing its job in one of the more publicised tiny-house design experiments of the decade. "We are now working on the second iteration of the concept. We are improving on certain things and reusing other concepts. One of the designs that worked really well is the composting toilet we designed using your urine separator." — Simon James,...