# This newfangled composting toilet has me so excited! I'm gettin greener by the minute **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399 "2003-05-29T23:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/1 "2003-05-29T23:42:23Z")
To: Ralph Nader \<[ralph@essential.org](mailto:ralph@essential.org)\> Mr. Nader, I was picking up my e-mail a few minutes ago, enjoying all those wonderful bargains you see on those ingenious yahoo pop-up ads, and came across the most interesting & environmentally friendly contraptions I’ve even had the pleasure of seeing. What will they think of next? This can never be topped. Praise be, Mother Nature! Finally a chance to get my very own [\*\* Envirolet, Composting Toilet: The ecological & economical solution for cottage, cabin, home or commercial use](http://store.yahoo.com/sancor/index.html)\*\*. To hell with ordering the free informational video, I’m gonna be sittin’ pretty and get me 3 of these babies! Unfortunately, I’m on a tight budget this month, so I’m going to have to settle for the[Envirolet® **Basic Plus** Composting Toilet (Non-Electric Model) with a 4" Wind Turbine](http://store.yahoo.com/sancor/enbasplusnon.html) for the absolute bargain price of only **$1,175** each. _(I only wish I had another $297 so I could afford the green granite colored model - Shit!)_ I haven’t been this excited since they introduced the Ammonia-Out Urine Purifier and I couldn’t even begin to tell you how much I’m saving not having to buy Poland Spring anymore. I writing you just in case you haven’t heard about our mutual prayers being answered. Isn’t this great? I’m sure you’ve already ordered yourself a 1/2 dozen of those [Premium Deluxe Models](http://store.yahoo.com/sancor/enlowwatrems5.html) for only **$1775** each. They come in contemporary black at no additional charge! On a more sour note, with the $3,600+ I’ll be spending on these (hopefully, recycled) polyethelene crappers, I won’t be able donate any money to you to the cause next year when you opt to run for the White House. Sorry. But I’m grinning from ear to ear in the knowledge that in less than 21 months, immediately following your inauguation, that old, inefficient and environmentally unfriendly Presidential Mansion will be outfitted with the toilets of the future! I just can’t hold in my excitement. Pffffffffffffffffft Your faithful follower, and very green, John Buck ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/2 "2003-05-30T00:06:54Z")
Eh. I’m saving my pennies for the [BumperDumper](http://www.bumperdumper.com/). ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/3 "2003-05-30T00:07:48Z")
If everyone just ran out and bought one of those nifty toilets then we would not need R. Nader. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/4 "2003-05-30T00:10:51Z")
Looking at the choices, I’d really try to scrounge up another $200 and get the low level electric one. Perhaps you could get a used diesel generator to power it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/5 "2003-05-30T02:58:39Z")
Sheeeit, I’ve wanted a composting toilet for years. You can use the product (your poop) as compost for the garden. This appeals to me on so many levels I get excited. I shit you not. It is charmingly referred to has \*humanure _. If you like to see how the other half lives, [size=1]and we ain’t talking about Uptown_ take a gander at 'Back Home 'Magazine. It’s for homesteaders, Militia types and future Unibombers. They have fabulous articles on how to build a home for under $12 a square foot…only you need to live somewhere where the weather doesn’t change and its all out of cardboard and milk jugs. It is really a nice back to basics magazine. Mr. Ujest forbides me to buy them anymore because I always want to become a goat farmer, chicken rancher, Llama rancher or whatever odd animal they feature every month. If he had bought the wind power system that I _told_ him to buy so we could harness the wind that we always have at our humble abode, we could be living off the grid now and have the system paid off. But that’s him. Short sighted. Feh. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/6 "2003-05-30T06:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > Eh. I’m saving my pennies for the [BumperDumper](http://www.bumperdumper.com/). Wow. This item has officially been added to the “list of things I do not want for Father’s day.” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/7 "2003-06-02T15:30:20Z")
**Shirley** –you’re like my eco-twin. I like to read Mother Earth News for the same reason. I like how it caters to both the extrime right-wingers and the extreme left-wingers at the same time. Funny how they have some really common interests. You’ll find the same thing at the [www.amitymama.com](http://www.amitymama.com) forums, where the super-granolas and the Utah polygamists get together to discuss cloth diapers. I’ll check out Back Home. And I’m about to buy the Humanure Handbook. And I do want a goat, but only one. Or two, so they don’t get lonely. Unfortunately, goat farming and wind power and composting toilets aren’t feasible on my 1/10 of an acre. Laugh all you want, but I use Envirolets regularly at Pennsylvania state parks, and they are not stinky or gross at all. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/8 "2003-06-02T15:33:44Z")
p.s. The Bumper Dumper is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Everyone knows you can get a toilet seat that fits right on a 5-gallon bucket, and that if you do that, it’s at a nice comfy height to use. Sheesh. Do they make a trailer-hitch version of _everything_. What’s next? “Try the Bumper Blender! It’s just a regular blender, but you can _mount it on your trailer hitch_! Only $109.99 (plus shipping and handling)!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/9 "2003-11-09T17:12:11Z")
I just saw the **Bumper Dumper** after visiting a link on [The G’Dope Message Board](http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope). Un-smegging-believable. Did you notice that the guy in the photo is sitting on a Bumper Dumper that doesn’t have a bag under it? That’s just… disturbing. > [@](#): > > What’s next? "Try the Bumper Blender! While it doesn’t fit on a trailer hitch receiver, they do make a [blender](http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=12351923&parent_category_rn=11549377) that you can take out in the bush with you. Yeah, nothing like “roughing it” and having to crank your own margaritas! (Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m the guy who takes an espresso pot along when I camp. :o ) ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-newfangled-composting-toilet-has-me-so-excited-im-gettin-greener-by-the-minute/178399/10 "2003-11-09T18:38:37Z")
Composting toilets are all the rage here where not everyone is blessed with running water. Composting toilets compare very well against a traditional septic system starting at 1500-5000. Some folks can’t even build a septic system because of environmental regulations or site conditions. I count myself among the fortunate ones to have free running water, flush toilet and septic system, but I also have a composting toilet. Mine is the cheap variety though, just a simple hole in the ground with a small throne enclosed in a small out building. I like to brag that I have the deepest outhouse hole in N. Idaho, 'cause I like to hear my shit whistle before it splats.