CHENEY, Wash. — One Cheney couple is taking recycling to a whole new level. Not only do they recycle their newspapers and cardboard, they recycle their own waste. The Ericksons plant their trees in ...

A composting toilet that sees regular use must be able to handle a lot of waste, and this high-capacity compost toilet system from Sun-Mar does. This model, which works with a 1-pint flush toilet or ...

Chrissy Wade didn’t think there was anything wrong with the way her family lived on its off-grid farm in Waterville. The four — including two teenagers — inhabit a simple, wood-heated yurt on 56 ...

Visitors to the Finnish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale are greeted with an unlikely sight at a festival typically devoted to the avant-garde and newfangled: a no-flush outhouse ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

UBC researchers are launching the world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, the MycoToilet, at the UBC Botanical Garden on Sept. 26. The prototype turns human waste into nutrient-rich compost ...