Incinerating Toilet = Barbecue?

Posted by Miss Cellania in Home & Garden on August 13, 2008 at 4:14 pm


The EcoJohn incinerating toilet uses no water at all!

The EcoJohn Sr. is a waterless, incinerating toilet certified for safety by Underwriters Laboratories, which, for classification purposes, called it a barbecue.

“Toilets haven’t really changed for the past 100 years,” Stefan Johansson said. “People are always looking for better products, better solutions. The EcoJohns are better, cleaner and good for the environment.”

The unit can be installed at a site as a primary toilet or carted via trailers and used as portable toilets.

The toilets, one of several waste disposal products offered by the company, operate pretty much like the units found in homes across America today. But while those toilets use water to carry waste away, the EcoJohn Sr. is equipped with a propane-fueled burner.

After a user does his business, he closes the lid and a large, screw-like auger turns and carries the waste to the burn chamber where the propane burner then bakes urine, feces and paper into ashes.

The EcoJohn is useful for places where it is impractical to install a sewage system, such as vacation cabins, rooftop parties, and construction sites. But the question in everyone’s mind is: why does it have to be classified as a barbecue?! Link -Thanks, Julie Anne!

(image credit: Mark Martinez/Orange County Register)




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12 comments to "Incinerating Toilet = Barbecue?"

  1. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    August 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    What do you do with the ashes?

  2. Goober
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    why does it have to be classified as a barbecue?!

    Because it’s a convenient, and very reliable standard by which to judge the safety of a propane powered devide intended for consumer use. Duh. Do you really want something that has a propane burner (and no water) certified via standards that apply to devices that use pressurized water?

  3. Anonymous
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    Is it loud?

  4. Larfin Jackarse
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Fart BEFORE entering.

  5. Kirkburn
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Where do you get the propane?

  6. Johnny Cat
    August 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Doesn’t burnt sh!t smell worse?

  7. ted
    August 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    You know what really burns my ass?

  8. Christophe
    August 13th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    Eco? with propane?
    If you’re an econuts, swtich to dry toilets.

  9. Skipweasel
    August 14th, 2008 at 2:15 am

    How many kJ/dump? Wtih rising energy costs this really many not be the way to go. Composting toilets make a lot more sense.

  10. Evan Rappaport
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    Great, now the price of flushing my toilet is going to be linked with the price of natural gas? Forget it. I’m for US toilet flushing independence.

  11. Thomas
    August 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    go crap in the woods, hippy.

  12. john abbott
    August 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    we had electric ones in the 1960,s in the air force


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