OHHHH it is such a nice looking holder too. Maybe fabricate a plastic center for it or find a smallish trash can to fit inside. You really do a nice bit of wood work. I would make that work some how. Is the bulking stuff wet? Does it really need a plastic liner. How about sealing it well with varathane or some thing like that.

I am very curious about why you have the composting toilet. No worries if my question is too nosy ☺️

Hi Louise -

When we started building my house I only spent a few weeks a year here in Maine. And we kept inching the house up in size.

When we finally got to the bathroom the choices within my budget were outhouse or composting toilet. Having loathed being sent out into the dark to outhouse when visiting people as a kid I chose the composting toilet. Which was fine when it was only used part time.

Composting toilets are preferable to going outside at midnight when it is 0 degrees but they need to be kept in some magical zone of moderate usage, moisture level and temperature to be effective. The irony is ideally I would have an outhouse and a composting toilet - or get over my stubbornness and get a small septic system. I have a hard time when I have invested in something taking a loss and changing direction.

TMI? Sorry. Lol.

OH and septic systems are so expensive. Even though we did ours ourselves it cost a lot for the tank and delivery and back hoe work, done by a friend, to dig the hole and the leach line things I forget the names of them. And of course the inspections and permits. I just heard a septic permit is now $800.00.

Not TMI and thank you ☺️

So you put a toilet seat on top of that wooden box and....go?

the wooden box shown above is to store the bulking agent needed for the compost toilet. It isn't the toilet.