compost toilet
Recent communications with the very helpful team at the Environment Agency (Penrith office) have concluded that Effugium Camping Club meet the legal and safety standards.
2.1 De minimis exclusions
You do not have to contact the Environment Agency if your discharge meets any of these requirements exactly:
rinses of pesticide spraying equipment and containers and sheep ‘pour-on’ containers – for example the third flush of such equipment
non-hazardous pollutants arising from the emergency treatment of water for drinking supply – for example military water decontamination systems
individual animal carcass burial made according to good practice guidelines
small quantities of clean water distillate from boilers
low-use waterless urinals of 10 litres a day or less – for example on golf courses
home made compost toilet - going through the prototypes
Warning - contains science.
DEFRA / Environment Agency
Registration WEX323937 – Effugium Camping Club
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Care of closets.
(1) The occupier of every building in, or in connection with, which a watercloset or an earthcloset is provided shall, in the case of a watercloset, cause the flushing apparatus thereof to be kept supplied with water sufficient for flushing and where necessary to be properly protected against frost, and shall, in the case of an earthcloset, cause it to be kept supplied with dry earth or other suitable deodorising material.
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Provision of closets in building.
(2) Unless a sufficient water supply and sewer are available, the authority shall not require the provision of a water-closet except in substitution for an existing water-closet.
Approved Document
Part H Drainage and waste disposal
H1 FOUL WATER DRAINAGE
The Requirement
This Approved Document, which took effect on 1 April 2002, deals with the following Requirement which is contained in the Building Regulations 2010
In-ground dry toilet compost system. Click left/right for photos.
