An Envirolet® Waterless Toilet was used as the ballot box for the Canadian Cancer Society in Alberta (May 2008). This is the second year our toilet has donated for this use. It made stops at local businesses to raise money and awareness.
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Here is a testimonial and photo of a unique installation of a 12v Envirolet® Waterless Remote Composting Toilet System installed on the deck of a Hawaiian cottage. Mary was kind enough to send it in to Buzz.
“Here is a short document about the use of our composting toilet. I have attached photos. If you would like more commentary or another view of the installation I would be happy to provide that.
My husband and I installed the Envirolet composting toilet on the deck of our garden cottage in Hawaii one year ago. We have been pleased with the installation and the function of the composting toilet. The toilet unit has the wind powered fanning system and that has worked well. The unit produced a tray of odorless compost after six months daily use in our family of two. We have had our family and friends visit on several different occasions and the toilet system has worked well for us.”
Thank you,
Mary F.
Hawaii
Envirolet® Composting Toilets were recently seen on the Daily Lounge Green Edition hosted by Emmy-winner Steve Greenberg (author of Gadget Nation) that aired on various network tv affiliates across the United States.
Watch the video below:
We wanted to add this nice 3D rendering of an Envirolet® Waterless Self-Contained Composting Toilet System installed pool side in a nice looking cabana.
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| From Pool Cabana Installation |
More 3D images coming soon!
This video, part of the Envirolet® 101 series, discusses receiving your Envirolet® Composting Toilet System.
More Envirolet® videos at http://www.youtube.com/envirolet.
No! The Paper Mat (seen when you receive a new system) is part of the system, so please don’t remove it!
To help explain questions like this we have added some new videos as part of our Envirolet® 101 video playlist on YouTube.
Here is one talking about the Paper Mat:
Check out the others and subscribe to our YouTube page at http://www.youtube.com/envirolet.
An Envirolet® Composting Toilet System is part of the Greensburg, KS re-building project. The project is to help re-build Greensburg, KS after a May 2007 tornado destroyed almost the entire community.
Architectural Review explains more about what happened and the re-building project:
“This Sunday, May 4, [2008] marks the one-year anniversary of the EF-5 tornado that destroyed most of Greensburg, Kansas. As part of a town-wide green initiative, students from the state’s two architecture schools are lending a hand in helping residents rebuild using sustainable design principles and techniques.
University of Kansas architecture professor Dan Rockhill’s well-known Studio 804 is working with the nonprofit Greensburg Art Center to develop Sustainable Prototype, a versatile prefabricated building that deploys multiple passive and active sustainable design techniques. Meanwhile, a group from Kansas State University is dotting the small city with 10-foot pods – a project called Greensburg Cubed – that promise to educate locals about the ecologically responsible design to which municipal leaders have committed in a variety of high-profile announcements.”
The project is being document on Planet Green’s television show, Greensburg. The show is executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Of note, this is the second involvement by Envirolet® with Planet Green. Envirolet® filmed an episode of the new Bill Nye show, Stuff Happens.
An Envirolet® was supplied by Sancor Industries Ltd. (at no cost) to help with the project. The advanced composting system is being placed in the “watering can” cube (or pod).
Some features of the “watering can” other than the Envirolet® Composting Toilet System include:
• exterior cladding - reused aluminum newspaper press plates
• hot water - evacuated tube hot water heating system
• shower - Evolve shower head
• interior cladding - reused chalk boards from KSU campus
• doors - salvaged french doors from remodel project in the area
• decking - Tendura, wood fiber and recycled plastic composite decking, purchased used from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Kansas City
• window - the window above the sink is created from glass bottles mortared together like glass block
• roof / skylight - Polygal, a corrugated, slightly insulating polycarbonate
• tile and countertop - Enviroglas recycled glass
• structure - Structurally insulated panels
More photos and info to come soon!
As we all know, less is better. Especially, when we are talking about adding toilet paper to a composting toilet system. Well, Current Configuration has this in mind with a fun post about how to save toilet paper! And, the solution is super easy! According to them all you have to do is position the paper over vs. under on your tp holder and you will save paper…
Read the full post for the “science” behind this.
Via Current Configuration via TreeHugger.
