Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composting toilets reduce water usage and do not require flushing. Composting toilets are gaining popularity for a good ...

If you want to get the RV community talking, ask them about poop. What sort of toilet setup they have, why they chose it, how they’ve altered it, where they empty it — the conversation can go on for ...

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 ...

Picking a toilet for your camper van can be an intimidating experience. There really are just… so many different kinds, from composting to chemical to incinerating. Lately, I've been testing the OGO ...

If you've ever been to a state or national park, you've probably used a vault toilet. It's a waterless toilet system for ...

I’m attempting to “green” my home, room by room. I’ve heard of low-flow toilets, but someone just told me about composting toilets. Do they smell bad? Will my grandmother use it or ask for an outhouse ...

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 ...

In 2005 I visited the Cottage Life Show in Toronto and wrote The Hot Poop on Alternative Toilets, looking the various toilets on the market. Since then I have become convinced that these toilets have ...

Three years ago, Judith Lennox decided to go green. In January, she moved into a 90-year-old bungalow in Baltimore renovated with a recycled wood pellet stove, a gray water system to reuse wastewater ...

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, ...