People everywhere are doing what they can to reduce their carbon footprint.
Some try to reduce their living space by living in tiny homes — like this 100-square-foot home in a sustainable living community in Portland — while others try to do their part by recycling, using less electricity, or supporting clean forms of energy like wind or solar.
What this DIY-er is doing is a bit more substantial, however: he's getting rid of her toilet!
It may sound crazy, but toilets use at least one gallon of water per flush, and some older toilets sometimes as much as seven gallons!
That's a lot of clean drinkable water wasted, not to mention the energy and money used to transport that water to a facility and cleaning it to be used again.
To conserve the water, he is doing away with it altogether by creating a composting toilet for their bathroom. Scroll through to figure out how it works.
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To serve as the base of his new compost toilet, this DIY-er found an old end table at the Goodwill. Talk about reusing materials to create a super-green DIY!
First, he removed the top and the doors of the end table.
He then spray-painted the end table white.
In the top of the end table, he cut a hole for a toilet seat.
He then attached the toilet seat to the top of the end table.
Inside of the table went a five-gallon bucket. He reused a litter bucket, but you can find a big bucket almost anywhere!
Next to the bucket, he attached a rectangular funnel for urine that drains outside.
For number-two business, he uses peat moss to cover up waste and toilet paper, and to reduce any smell.
Some might find it odd, but this DIY compost toilet is good for the environment and your water bill, and it even looks prettier than a normal commode!
Would you ever use a compost toilet to cut down on your water bill? Or is this a little too "rustic" for your taste?
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