After 6 years of work and experimentation, “l'ôôôberge”, the first residence in France equipped with dry toilets, has opened its doors.
If two apartments are currently equipped with the prototype, produced by the French company Ecodomeo, fifteen others should soon benefit from it.
To equip the apartments with this expensive model, at 2,500 euros per unit, the association behind this participatory housing has received subsidies.
“No resident had to pay for this service,” says Irène Cerquetti, one of the co-founders of the project.
A water supply is always present next to the toilets, “in case of emergency or need”.
When the treadmill replaces the toilet flush
If these toilets have the appearance of classic toilets, there is no water when you open the bowl.
Instead, a conveyor belt carries the excrement in a box located at the back of the throne, while the urine flows, by gravity, at the front of the WC, in a pipe.
The urine will then end up in three tanks of 4 cubic meters, and the faeces box will be changed regularly.
The feces will be composted, then used for crops intended for animals, while the urine will be used as slurry for an agricultural school.
"We produce the resource, and we reuse it locally", summarizes Irène Cerquetti.
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