Composting Toilet Information
Working like the compost heap in the backyard, but odorlessly and much faster, Sun-Mar toilets break down human waste and toilet paper through the natural process of decomposition. Because most of this waste is evaporated, only a very limited quantity of finished compost is produced.
Oxygen, moisture, heat and organic material are needed to allow minute natural organisms to transform the waste to fertilizing soil.
The engineered air flow within Sun-Mar units ensures that a partial vacuum is maintained within the unit at all times. Air is drawn in by a fan, or on non-electric units by the vent chimney, over the evaporating chamber and up the vent stack. Not only does this evaporate excess liquid, but, by continuously pulling air in we ensure no smell escapes from the unit.
In addition, the tumbling action of the composting drum results in such a moist and beautifully oxygenated compost that an aerobic breakdown takes place which is both fast and odorless. Breakdown is odorless because aerobic microbes produce only carbon dioxide and water vapor, quite unlike the unpleasant anaerobic smell often found in a septic tank, outhouse, or backyard compost.
Sun-Mar's unique Bio-DrumTM has been developed to provide the optimum conditions for aerobic composting. Using such design, Sun-Mar has been able to ensure that the compost in the drum is maintained in the moist, warm, well mixed, oxygen rich condition which aerobic bacteria need for optimum performance.
Sun-Mar has also found that such approach avoids the anaerobic activity which occurs wherever there is insufficient oxygen. This is important because anaerobic activity is slow and produces offensive odors. The use of this revolutionary Bio-DrumTM results in composting speeds double those of the old single chamber units with mechanical mixers.
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