TFP Composting Toilet
Toilets for People
Solution Overview & Benefits
TFP Composting Toilets use urine diversion and the natural processes of decomposition and evaporation to breakdown and reduce the volume of human waste, transforming it into a soil-like compost material.
It starts with a horizontally mounted rotating drum, much like a garden composter, that sits inside a box. This proven technology has been the industry standard since the 1970s in the USA and Canada.
Underneath the toilet seat is a system for turning your unsanitary waste into clean compost that you can use to fertilize the land around you. This simple system does not require chemicals or plastic bags to separate your waste or a complex plumbing system you would need to call in for service. Ease of use and repair is fundamental for the sustainability of this toilet.
History & Development
In 2010, Jason was volunteering with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and leading a team of engineers tasked with finding a toilet that would work for a health clinic in Peru. The clinic was in the Peruvian Amazon and built on stilts to keep it above the floodwaters that submerge the community six months out of the year. Outhouses and flush toilets would not work in this situation either, and Jason thought of the composting toilet he installed in Vermont at his cabin.
Along with the team of EWB engineers, Jason proceeded to create a new composting toilet improving on the model he had purchased for his cabin. This new model used the same proven, spinning drum composting technology as the other toilet but used durable off the shelf components making it long lasting and easy to fix if ever there was a need.
Soon after this trip in 2010, Jason set up Toilets for People (TFP) to continue the design process. After 8 years of design, dozens of versions and extensive testing, we are happy to introduce the TFP Composting Toilet to serve as a affordable, hygienic bathroom solution for off-grid homeowners in the USA as well as people in the developing world.
TFP is a social business that provides an affordable, sustainable and ecological toilet solution to those living off-grid in cabins, tiny houses, boats and RVs. TFP also serves organizations working in community development and disaster relief.
Availability
- Publicly available: yes
- Countries where available: India, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Senegal
- Available online: yes
- Offered or can be licensed for local manufacture: Yes
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