is available free online & perhaps the most complete resource on this subject ... (click on book cover to open)
See also
(information about nightsoil & pathogens)
(useful information for designing & building sturdy compost toilets)
(how to use human waste to make biogas, while rendering it safe in the process)
How to build a composting toilet
Book: Community Guide to Environmental Health
Book: The Composting Toilet Systems Book
Closing the loop on phosphorus
Composting toilet info from Practical Action
Guidelines for safely using urine and feces
Guidelines for using urine and feces for crop production
Urine Diversion: One Step Towards Sustainable Sanitation
All about urine diverting dry toilets
City approved composting toilet in Austin
with diagrams ... click belw
This web has a lot of information about composting toilets, design criteria, differences between dry toilets and compost toilets, historical roots, and how to use urine and composting humanure.
See http://greywateraction.org
From HumanureHandbook.com: This short video clip shows a humanure compost pile on its first day.
The empty bin bottom is dished out, the "biological sponge" is added, and toilet materials are deposited.
Jeff Chapin
Click on picture to see news article,
use search for pdf version with design details
click on image for plans
See Clivus Minimus Construction Specifications
attached (similar to this but with lots of useful construction details)
A chamber pot is a bowl-shaped container with a handle, and often a lid, kept in the bedroom under a bed or in the cabinet of a nightstand and generally used as a toilet at night ... and there's nothing preventing us using it in the daylight hours, of course.
For lovers of the Mini-Max permaculture principle, of course we always have the humble chamber pot (advantages)
1) no construction required,
unless you want to make a 'throne' for yours like this ancient piece >>
2) totally portable,
3) then you can bury the contents near your favourite trees to compost them direct
4) regular excercise routine included
5) just like Nature intended