Compost toilet installed in a beautiful, off-grid, strawbale roundhouse
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With a uribe separator compost toilet , how do you dispose of the urine. linda
In most cases, I suggest people run the urine outside through appropriate pipework, to a small soak-away pit. This is a small (50x50x50cm ish) hole, filled with gravel etc. The urine flows into the top and the material provides a large surface area to slow its flow. Naturally-occurring soil bacteria will feed off the nitrogen (food) in the urine and convert it to mainly water.
The amount of urine the soak-away is having to deal with is very small – typically 1.5 – 2 litres a day for most people, spread out over several visits. If you’re in the UK, the Environment Agency are OK with any discharge to the ground of under 10 litres a day, provided you are at least 10 metres away from a water course etc.