Composting toilets way of the future?

[Joseph Weisenbloom]

I was watching that Bill Gates documentary and he was talking about the toilet of the future and how he is funding competitions for university students to design it. It seems like the modern toilet is wasteful of water and expensive to hook up to sewer. Anyone ever use a composting toilet in their personal home or dare I say in a rental? What brand of composting toilet did you use? From some brief research it seems like its a promising area but not sure the technology is there yet to match the ease of use of a standard toilet.

[Joseph Weisenbloom]

@Larry Alexander From what Ive researched the top brand of composting toilet is the sunmar centex series. It offers a very similar experience to a regular toilet with water flushing. That being said there are some major design flaws. For one it requires someone to crank the composting chamber once a week. Which is complete BS. Why do they have a manual crank when they could have a motor do the crank and have a timer that does it automatically. I also saw that it requires adding sawdust or peat moss once a week. Why not have a hopper full of a years worth of peat moss and distribute it into the chamber automatically. Overall I think its a good design but like I said earlier the technology hasnt come far enough for it to be a legitimate replacement for a standard toilet. Correct me if im wrong. I’d be glad if someone in the forums could chime with some first hand experience.