The beauty of having so much space on a glamping site is that we can offer solitude, peace and quiet to our guests who want to relax whilst also providing plenty of opportunity to families and couples who prefer a bit of adventure. The only downside of so much space is that some of our guests stay quite a way from the main facilities and while we make sure they no this sort of tstuff when they book, we wanted to make life easier for them.
We decided we wanted a discreet composting toilet at the end of the site furthest away from the toilet block. A loo is all we need so people don't have far to go at night - the showers are fine where they areas it is only a couple of hundred metres from the furthest accommodation.
After some research we decided to opt for a wheelie bin version, this means that we can have a comfortable toilet and once or maybe twice a season one of use can pull out the wheelie bin, slam the lid shit without having to see or touch anything nasty and then park it away securely for a year or so. After that period of time we'll be left with beautiful compost that is clean and safe and looks the same as the bags of stuff you buy in a gardening centre - we'll use it to feed the trees around the site.
So Russ went to work with some locally felled larch, some basic tools and a bit of swearing. The end result is a posh little loo that is clean and tidy inside. It is comfortable to use, doesn't smell and people who wouldn't usually fancy using a compost loo have been pleasantly surprised by the experience.
We added a urinal for the gents too and they rarely can be persuaded to sit for a wee and the system doesn't work well when wet stuff and solid stuff mix too much.
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