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"Many people think the idea of putting composting toilets in homes is crazy. One commenter noted earlier when I suggested it: "No one will want this inside their house. I know this, because I still have a few teeth in my head and a few friends in town." But more and more, people are going off-pipe; my friend Laurence Grant has done it for almost 20 years and wrote about it here; now energy consultant Allison Bailes describes how he did it in Green Building Advisor and how his bathroom actually smells better than yours."

"We can't continue using drinking water to flush away our waste, and we can't afford to keep wasting our waste; at some point soon these are going to be coming into our homes and offices. Don't laugh; already, if you want to build to the Living Building Challenge standard, they are pretty much the only way to go."