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Some great feedback just came in from a DIY compost toilet builder in Australia: Comment: Hello Suzanne at free range designs / We-pee, Just a quick note to let you know that we have received the 3 separators & all in good condition. Australian customer- very prompt service & delivery. Thank you very much. Kind regards Paula & Rupert

Long live the composting toilet - when the end is good everything is good. The Danish artist Jytte Abildstrom Composting toilets in Denmark are growing in popularity all the time, as more and more Danish citizens are looking for environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional flush toilet and waste management systems. Dry composting toilets require no water, electricity, or mains sewage and produce wonderful, useable compost that can be returned to feed the soil, naturally. Urine separation is a key factor in ensuring odour-free composting toilets and a successful composting process. The we-pee urine separator is a light-weight, affordable solution that...

Composting toilets are a growing phenomenon across the world and the we-pee urine diverter is sold to countries far and wide, from Iceland to Croatia, New Zealand to Canada. To help people buy the we-pee urine separator wherever they are, we have translated the site into different languages and we are delighted to have added Spanish to the list of languages you can buy the urine separator in. So welcome to the site, El Separador de Orina! Composting toilets are a great solution in areas struggling with water shortages, and soon to be available in Spanish are the Plans to...

Compost toilets come in all shapes and sizes — and that's part of what we love about them. Every customer build looks different because every site, every aesthetic and every set of constraints is different. Here's an example from South Africa featuring one of our urine separators, designed and built by Paul's brother's furniture-making business Sylvantutch. It's a campsite installation — functional, well-built, and clearly somewhere you'd be happy to use a loo. For campsite use the same principles apply as for any compost toilet: divert the urine away from the solids at source, keep the solids dry with sawdust...

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...