Dry toilet

Schematic of a dry toilet:[1] Left a squat toilet, right a pedestal type toilet.

A dry toilet (or non-flush toilet, no flush toilet or toilet without a flush) is a toilet which, unlike a flush toilet, does not use flush water.[1] Dry toilets do not use water to move excreta along or block odors.[2] They do not produce sewage, and are not connected to a sewer system or septic tank. Instead, excreta falls through a drop hole.[1]

A variety of dry toilets exist, ranging from simple bucket toilets to specialized incinerating and freezing toilets.

  1. ^ a b c Tilley, E.; Ulrich, L.; Lüthi, C.; Reymond, Ph.; Zurbrügg, C. (2014). Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies (2nd Revised ed.). Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Duebendorf, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3906484570.
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