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, ...

You don’t need to purchase a commercial composting toilet to safely recycle human waste. A simple setup of a bucket, seat and sawdust — giving these toilets the name “sawdust potties” — will do. We ...

First commercialized in Sweden more than 30 years ago, composting toilets have been associated with camping and outdoor adventures. But increasingly, buyers have installed them in pool cabanas, ...

Flowering compost urinals are being trialed in the French capital as a green weapon in its long-standing battle against "wild peeing." Because urinating in public also causes environmental problems, ...

This outdoor urinal by French design studio Faltazi slots into a straw bale to recycle pee from festivalgoers into compost. L'Uritonnoir is a cross between a urinal ("urinoir" in French) and a funnel ...

Hubballi: The waterless urinal in the heart of Ballari has become a source of compost for growing crops. While the urinal, installed on a pilot basis, at Valmiki Circle (SP Circle) has proved to be a ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – The composting toilet is adorable; all cheery plastic curves in a bright Smurf blue. It seems to belong in a playhouse. Outside, roosters strut and crow, pigs snort and snuffle in ...

Outside the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, two red boxes topped with flowers look like overdesigned planters, or, from the side, mailboxes. They’re actually public urinals called Uritrottoirs, ...

The U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival is replacing almost all its plastic portable toilets with more than 1,000 organic compost lavatories this year. The compost conveniences are designed to minimize foul ...