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Composting toilet supplies, parts & sources.

This article series describes the nature of composting toilets, how they work, how they are used, where they can be used, usage restrictions, and different composting toilet types and features.

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Toilet Supplies for Composting, Low-Water & Waterless Toilets

The toilet supplies listed in the table below are available from the manufacturers listed in the "Usage" column and also in a more-complete product directory found at our home page for this topic,

at COMPOSTING TOILETS, as well as from additional distributors located online.

Composting Toilet Brand & Supply Item
Cost
List 1
 Quantity Properties Usage
Air Head Composting Toilet Paper Carriers $4 Pack of 50 SKU: 650076286237  Liner for Air Head Composting TOILET

AIRHEAD composting toilets (Australia)
Biolet Compost Starter Mix $30. 8 gal. bag

A specialized compost mix of peat and other natural organic materials help keep your BioLet composting toilet at its peak efficiency.

Formulated by soil scientists, this mixture provides the optimum balance for efficient composting.

1 bag will last 2 people using a BioLet full time for about 3-4 months.

add 1/2 cup of this compost mix after each fecal use

BIOLET composting toilets
         

EcoToilets

New Zealand

       Eco TOILETS composting toilets (New Zealand)
         
Envirolet® Starter Mix Kit $32.
or
2 for $59.		 1 bag of premix starter material and 1 paper mat activates the composting process. Recommended for seasonal start up of your Envirolet® composting toilet system or any other type of composting toilet system. ENVIROLET composting toilets
Envirolet Compost Accelerator

$29.

2/$55

3/$74.

 1 x 16 oz jar

Applied to Envirolet® composting unit once every two weeks with a small amount of warm water.

Helps accelerate the composting process in your system. Take advantage of the quantity discount!

Can even be added to your home or backyard composter.

 16oz jar will last approximately 9-12 months when using 1 tablespoon every 2 weeks with a warm cup of water.
Envirolet Daily Mix Reusable Pail $43.

2/$80		 56 Cups Daily Mix in Reusable Pail

Daily Mix is specially formulated for daily use with Envirolet® Composting Toilet Systems.

Improves composting and is recommended instead of peat moss. All natural material.

 1/4 cup per user of Daily Mix every day evenly over compost
Envirolet Daily Mix Refill Pak for above item $94.

2/$158.		 6 bags. 168 cups see above see above
Envirolet Air Solution Kit

$26.

2/$48.

 3 gel cassettes per kit

Cassette is placed inside system between Aeration Basket and shell of body.

Helps ensure a fresh outside scent. Particularily helpful in low lying areas or areas where trees may result in a downdraft.

Each cassette will last approximately 30-60 days

ENVIROLET composting toilets
         

Nature Loo
Nature Flush Enzymes

Australia

 $32 AUD 1L

$140 AUD 5L		 1L or 5L of concentrate, dilute 20 parts water to 1 part enzyme concentrate .

Enzyme Concentrate –
To speed up the composting process and provide a fresh fragrance with the push of a button, enzymes can be sprayed into the chamber.

In the case of the Compact toilet you can either add these manually using a hand held domestic spray flask or by purchasing our micro dosing pump kit, which produces an evenly distributed spray directly onto the contents of the chamber.

 

Kits contain a micro flush foot pump, storage container, pipes, nozzles and enough enzyme concentrate for 4000 flushes.

NATURE LOO composting toilets (Australia)
         
Phoenix composting toilet bulking mix see note at right  

The best bulking material is dry planer shavings from a white softwood
such as pine.

Do not use shavings from decay resistant woods such as cedar or redwood: this material will reduce the composting rate.

The bulking agent must have a physical structure that resists compaction so that air voids will remain open.

Do not use large wood chips, wood waste from treated lumber, or materials that form a mat, such as long grass or leaves.

Dry pine shavings often are sold as bales of animal bedding.

Add one to two gallons of bulking material
through the toilet or upper access door for every 100 uses.

Add one to two gallons of bulking material
through the toilet or upper access door for every 100 uses.

PHOENIX composting toilets
         
Sun-Mar® Compost Sure - BULK $75 list

avail at $60		 One Bulk package = 5 boxes of 8-gallon (30L) bags

Comprised of peat moss & chopped hemp stalk. Quoting: Compost Sure consists of coarse peat moss and chopped hemp stalk.

Compost Sure has an added advantage over homemade bulking material - hemp.

Hemp will decompose where wood shavings and peat moss do not - giving your compost a longer residency time!

More importantly, it saves you the time of making your own mix.

1 cup of compost mix per person per day or 1 cup of compost mix for every bowel movement.

SUN MAR composting toilets

SUN MAR CANADA LetsGoGreen composting toilets
Sun-Mar Compost Sure Blue - BULK $75-$90 One Bulk package = 5 boxes of 8-gallon (30L) bags

Bulking material containing 100% hemp stalk.

Designed especially for central systems with low-flush toilets in addition to garden composters.

The hemp stalk breaks down quickly while offering good porousity and keeps the compost supplied with carbon.

 ?? - copy from above 1 cup of compost mix per person per day or 1 cup of compost mix for every bowel movement.
Sun-Mar Compost Quick Spray

$170-$200

Indiv.
Bottles:
$13-19.

 12/ 16oz. bottles of spray enzyme. Enzyme liquid accelerates the composting action, leaving you with a perfect finished compost every time. It can also be used as a cleaner for either your bowl liner (for self-contained models) or your toilet (for Low Flush systems). 3-4 squirts of nozzle before rotating drum. We estimate that translates into 200+ squirts/bottle or 25 drum rotations.
Sun-Mar Microbe Mix $17. 16 oz jar Super-biologically active bacteria which will recharge your compost.  

Notes to the table above

1. Prices are rounded to nearest dollar

2. Fast dissolving toilet tissue & other supplies are excluded from this list unless specified as required by the toilet manufacturer.

3. Bulk additive for composting: reading reviews of what works and doesn't work for people we note that

Sun-mar advised an unhappy owner of a Centrex composting toilet that their soggy waste mixture was caused by failing to use the proper mix of sawdust and peat moss - (retrieved 2/24/2014 treehugger.com 2014)

Watch out: do not use home-made bulk composting remedies like wood shavings or wood chips; you're likely to clog and possibly damage the composting mixer as well as to see poor results in the field.

Reader Question: What are the operating costs & choices for composting toilets? Are consumables really required for composting toilets?

Your web site has been very useful indeed but we remain uncertain about our choice. Are you aware of a composting toilet that uses water and standard house electricity for which there are no consumables necessary? if not is there a way of comparing the on-going costs of additives for these toilets? Thanks very much - A.D. - Canada

Reply: List of Composting Toilet Supplies, Costs, Features, Functions

I am not aware of any composting toilet design for which the manufacturer recommends no consumables whatsoever. The minimum consumable required is a bulking material. Sun-Mar and some others also offer enzymes, deodorants, and compost activators that may be optional.

Quoting from the Phoenix Composting Toilet System Instructions for Operation and Maintenance, and noting that opinions vary among manufacturers about the best and most easily biodegraded bulking material to use in a composting toilet:

Bulking material is necessary to improve drainage and aeration, and to provide extra carbon, thus creating conditions essential for composting. The right amount of bulking material gives the compost pile a crumbly, porous texture.

An inadequate amount results in a wet, pudding-like texture, puddling liquid, and anaerobic conditions that generate an unpleasant odor. [1][2]

"Anaerobic conditions" means more than just an unpleasant odor. It also means the system will lack aerobic bacterial action and biodegradation will not proceed properly nor adequately.

Keep in mind that the operating cost for a composting toilet depends not only on the cost of supplies but on the type of toilet selected (non-electric vs. electric, for example) and upon the level of usage and perhaps maintenance. That said, below we have begun a table of composting & waterless & low-water toilet system supplies, uses, & costs.


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