Essential Composting Toilets (eBook)

A Guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use

Gord Baird, Ann Baird (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
192 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-77142-260-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.

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From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems.Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings.Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes: Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos Coverage of all main composting toilet systems Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details Design and installation details.Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.

Autor

lt;p> Gord Baird , BA, ARCSA AP and Ann Baird , BSc are the co-creators, designers, and builders of the award winning Eco-Sense home in Victoria, BC, Canada, the first internationally recognized Living Building Challenge petal residential project. They implemented greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets into North America's first legal two-story seismically engineered load-bearing cob home. Gord is Water Commissioner for the Capital Regional District's regional Water Supply Commission and Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission, and was a technical editor for the BC Ministry of Health's Manual of Composting Toilets and Greywater Standard Practices (2016). Ann works on regional climate action initiatives involving water, food, and energy resiliency in climate adaptation and risk management. They currently give tours of their Eco-sense permaculture homestead in Victoria, BC. www.eco-sense.ca.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Safe Composting
Chapter 3: System Components and Processes
Chapter 4: Design Considerations
Chapter 5: Commode Batch Systems
Chapter 6: Chambered/Moldering Batch Systems
Chapter 7: Continuous Systems
Chapter 8: Fluid Management
Chapter 9: Best Practices
Chapter 10: The Last Flush

Appendix A: Percolation Test Procedure
Appendix B: Manufacturers
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
A Note About the Publisher

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Sustainable Building Essentials Series
• Zusatzinfo: 30 Line drawings, 65 Halftones and 24 Color Illustrations
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Schlagworte: building consultants • composting • composting toilet systems • Design • Designers • diyers • Drawings • ecofriendly • environmentally conscious • environmentally friendly • Gord Baird, Ann Baird, Eco-sense, Eco sense, Eco-sense house, composting toilet, humanure • Green Design • homeowners • Installation • new builds • Photos • Plans • Regulators • renovations • resource recovery • rural building • septic system replacement • Servicing • site considerations • Sustainable • urine separation • ventilation • Water conservation • water conservation advocates
• ISBN-10: 1-77142-260-2 / 1771422602
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77142-260-4 / 9781771422604