DOVER — Nowadays, we take such things as municipal sewer and septic systems for granted when it comes to human waste disposal. But for thousands of years, many civilizations have made prodigious use ...

Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Not a composting toilet, but it's a good reminder to always keep your toilet clean! (Pexels.) If you’re like me, you’re always thinking of ways that you can live your life a little bit more “green.” I ...

When you hear the words “compost toilet”, there’s a good chance you immediately begin imagining some sort of terrifying box with a hole in it you want nothing to do with. That’s certainly what I ...

LITTLE ROCK — For users more concerned about finding a toilet for a remote site than one that will play all your favorite tunes, a composting toilet could be just the ticket. Modern composting toilets ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. But lots of people do; last year I stayed in Laurence Grant's house near St. Thomas, ...

When Chris Kerston started planning temporary farmstay cabins for Chaffin Family Orchards, the thought of a traditional wastewater system was enough to make him grimace. He had little desire to spend ...