We-Pee News
DIY Compost Toilets - a global solution
The We-Pee urine separator was first developed in 2009 in Wales, UK, for use in our own composting toilet projects. We've since sold well over a thousand separators to individuals, charities, businesses and aid projects building composting toilets in every corner of the globe. The list of countries that have received a We-Pee separator keeps growing. To date, it includes: Alaska Australia Canada Colombia France Germany Haiti Ireland New Zealand Portugal South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Tenerife & the Canary Islands The Netherlands Ukraine United Kingdom United States That's 20+ countries, four continents, and a wonderful range of...
Haiti children's project
The Germany children's charity Haiti Kinderhilfe has been using the we-pee urine separators in new composting toilet blocks that are part of a school and kindergarten building project in Haiti, where there is an urgent need for new educational buildings and sanitary facilities. In rural areas of Haiti where there is currently no electricity or infrastructure, composting toilets play a vital role in providing essential facilities that do not require any electricity or water.
Tiny House Toilets
Dry toilets — also known as composting toilets — fit perfectly with the ethos of tiny living. Environmentally friendly, simple to use, no plumbing required, and a clear answer to one of the biggest challenges of off-grid life: what to do with human waste in a space the size of a garden shed. For tiny house owners, vanlifers and boat dwellers, a compost toilet makes sense in so many ways. No water tank to lug around for flushing. No black-water tank to dump. No sewage hookups to find. And as a bonus, the system captures valuable nutrients that can be...
Our first urine separator sold to Alaska
We are pleased to have posted our first urine separator to Alaska today. This now adds to the many countries that we have already posted urine separators to. UK, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zeeland, India, Portugal and Nigeria. Postage is included in the price to anywhere in the world so give us a challenge.
Discover the incredible story of Urine
We have just finished reading this book and cannot recommend it highly enough as a good toilet book! Life of Pee, the story of how urine got everywhere. Alchemists sought gold in it. David Bowie refrigerated it to ward off evil. In the trenches of Ypres soldiers used it as a gas mask, whereas modern-day terrorists add it to home-made explosives. All the Fullers, Tuckers and Walkers in the phonebook owe their names to it, and in 1969 four bags for storing it were left on the surface of the moon. Bought and sold, traded and transported, even carried to...