Re: GBlist: Septic system

[Kristian Kicinski <kkicinski@robertsonsherwood.com>]

You might want to check out the composting toilet section of the Green Building
Sourcebook at  http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/CompostToilet.html

Composting toilets can be "low-flow" (use a small of water to flush) and
centralized in a big tank (it sounds like that's the kind of system you saw) or
they can be the "dry" kind that most of us think about when we think "composting
toilet".

SPOTSYWAY@cs.com wrote:

> Does anyone know of a "green" septic system, if there is such a thing. I
> thought I saw on cable (Bob Vila maybe), a portable plastic drum system that
> was brought to the site by pickup truck. It looked as if it eliminated the
> standard leachfield. It was placed close, I thought, to the house site and
> seemed easy to install. I need  to get a system, as I am building without
> benefit of a sewer hookup. Thanks
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