A toilet system that uses very little or no water and treats excreta with composting or aerobic decomposition is called a Composing Toilet. Almost all septic tank or wastewater processes treat the waste in the absence of oxygen or anaerobically and take longer than the aerobic decomposition systems found in composting toilets.
Composting toilets are ideal alternatives to the regular methods used by sewers as they do not discharge potentially hazardous material into the environment, require no water for flushing and sometimes are used to capture nutrients in human excreta.
