The flushing vermiculture toilet system is similar to a normal flushing toilet inside the house, but it is the treatment on the outside that is different. Instead of a usual septic tank, we put our composting worms to work first.
We have been selling composting worms to people with these toilets for some time now, finally, we have built our own.
A big thanks to the volunteers who were here in November who collected stones, experimented with building the wall and light earth and help with insulating the roof.
You can also take a read about our completed vermiculture long drop dry toilet, where worms eat all the poo but lots of water is saved.
References:
We first heard of this at Rak Tamachat in Thailand, however they used the worms in the first chamber of a home made septic tank rather than replacing a septic tank.
We based this design from http://www.vermicompostingtoilets.net/
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