We-Pee News — urine separator

Germany has fallen head over heels for the Trockentrenntoilette — the dry separating toilet. Up and down the country, vanlifers and tiny-home builders are swapping smelly chemical cassettes for something simpler, cleaner and completely waterless. At the heart of almost every one of these builds sits a single clever component: a urine separator. We love seeing where ours end up, and Steffi’s camper-van loo is a real beauty. “Finally I have built my CampingVan compost toilet,” Steffi told us from Germany. “The challenge for me was to save space, so I didn’t want to use a usual toilet seat. I...

A step-by-step guide to installing a We-Pee urine separator in your composting toilet — from positioning and fixing to pipework, testing, and tips from over 15 years of experience.

The single most important factor in any composting toilet is urine separation. Here's why separating liquid from solid waste at source eliminates odour, speeds up composting, and makes the whole system dramatically easier to maintain.