Toilets are an opportunity to reclaim plant nutrients from food which has been partially "processed" by humans. At present though, they are more often used to create water pollution or to contaminate the environment and spread disease.

  • Pit toilets and latrines: both basically have a container holding the feces (not a septic tank as this allows microbial processing)
  • Flush toilets (connected to the sewage collection system
  • Flush toilets (connected to a septic tank or biodigester): when hooked up to a septic tank, the effluent can be disposed of into the soil using a drain field or it can be used as fertiliser (probably still needs treatment then though, atleast when using human feces). When using a biodigester, it no longer requires treatment for being able to use the effluent as fertiliser, and it also generates some biogas, which can be used as an energy source.[1]Connecting a flush toilet to an anaerobic digester reference 2Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

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