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Arapiles Bore Dry but business as usual 1-Oct-2008 At 7:36:58 AM climberman

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One of the issues with composting toilets in public places is the high variety in use, which makes design / capacity etc more difficult.

If you design it for the regular use, it then has trouble coping with the volume at peak periods. If you design it to cope with peak use, they can have trouble coping with enough nutrient inflow to keep composting in the void space over low use periods. Design it midway and it fails at both ends.

When they fail they end up needing pump-out and / or repair which ends up costing as much over the year as a flush... or a permanent regular pump-away system.

Another issue, less of a problem at Araps I suppose, is when people empty their chemical dunnies into composting dunnies, and kill all the composting bacteria and generally fk the system. Grey nomads are great at doing this.

Arapiles has at least a generally drier climate, which is better for composting toilets overall when they are public.