Chrissy Wade didn’t think there was anything wrong with the way her family lived on its off-grid farm in Waterville. The four — including two teenagers — inhabit a simple, wood-heated yurt on 56 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Septic tank waste disposal systems have a delicate equilibrium that helps to break down solid waste, while releasing effluent into the drain field soil where the natural filtration processes remove ...

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 ...

Every time Clint and Bobbi Elston flush a toilet or turn on their tap, they make history. Clint Elston has designed what he believes is the world’s first self-contained sewage treatment system in the ...

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 ...

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