Not the most comfortable topic to discuss but closing up the cabin last week I realized that our toilet has been problem-free for many years and worthy of a brief review to share with the readers of SurvivalBlog. I did not receive any compensation for this review, and we purchased this unit four years ago and have been using it regularly.
We installed a composting toilet in our cabin several years ago for those times we didn’t want to trudge 300′ through the snow to the outhouse. My wife and I watched numerous video reviews of different composting toilets in tiny houses. Quite frankly many of them were disgusting to watch with cranking handles to stir up the mixture, adding sawdust, or dumping buckets. Some of the toilets sat up on a riser so you had to step up to sit on it. Then we ran across the Swedish-made composting toilet called the “Separett”. It is named as such because the urine is separate from the solid waste (“poo”). We learned if you remove the urine from the poo, the odor will dissipate in short order.Continue reading“Separett Waterless Composting Toilet, by OhioGalt”