San Francisco has a poop problem – in the city’s Tenderloin district alone, there were almost 10,000 recorded “incidents of human waste” last year, according to the Bay Citizen. So this fall, the ...

Today is World Toilet Day. For some, toilets are something we don’t really think about, and we certainly don’t talk about. The point of World Toilet Day, however, is to remind us that toilets and ...

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You might think it odd that we’d start an article about compost toilets by stating that no such thing exists. But they don’t. Composting is a specific process, one that occurs under specific ...

A tennis date on New York City’s only public red-clay courts on a midsummer weekend can mean a two- to three-hour wait. With the soft grass and courtside gardens in this part of Riverside Park ...

The modern flush toilet may be a marvel of engineering but installing one on a boat or RV or in a remote cabin can be challenging. Flush toilets also require a steady supply of water, and the ...

Composting toilets use aerobic decomposition to break down human waste instead of flushing it away in watery sewage. Most don't use water, so they don't need to be connected to a city wastewater ...

We left our city lives behind to live off-grid at the top of a mountain in Spain. After two years of renovating an old stone house and restoring the land, our experience with the toilet has been ...

Composting toilets are gaining in popularity, especially among eco-conscious consumers. Similar to the process of composting food scraps, composting toilets transform human waste into compost-like ...