In just five years, the sale of new vans has increased by 156%, and rentals for this type of vehicle have also grown by 40%! That’s how strong the demand is!

But with van travel comes a lack of restroom facilities. This difficulty in accessing toilets can quickly become inconvenient during several days of vacation. Apart from the comfort aspect, travelers must also respect the places where they park for the night.

There’s nothing worse than discovering that the perfect spot you found for your stay is a makeshift open-air toilet.

It’s partly because of such abuses that more and more places are off-limits to converted vehicles. So, whether it’s out of respect for nature or for a more enjoyable vacation, why not consider equipping your vehicle with a portable dry toilet?

The Boom in Van Travel in Recent Years

Unlike traditional travel, van travel allows explorers to choose their own itinerary and stop wherever they please. This freedom to come and go without time constraints or advance reservations is particularly appealing to adventurers and those seeking spontaneity.

Van travel primarily offers the opportunity to get closer to nature, discover breathtaking landscapes, and explore remote places. This authentic road and outdoor living experience attracts many travelers in search of new sensations and a deeper connection with nature.

Why Equip Your Van with a Portable Dry Toilet?

As mentioned earlier, finding practical and environmentally friendly sanitary solutions is a significant challenge for van travelers. This is where dry toilets come into play – they offer you the freedom to stop wherever you like, without depending on gas stations or campgrounds to satisfy your needs.

They are self-contained and do not require water or sewage system connections, allowing you to explore dream destinations without any constraints. Much less odorous and polluting than chemical toilets, dry toilets only require untreated sawdust as an additive, which you can order from ICAG.

Among the dry toilet models available on the market, ICAG® dry toilets stand out for their design and quality materials. Our ICAG® Mobile portable dry toilet, specially designed for van travel, offers a practical and hygienic solution.

Made from durable and lightweight materials, they are easy to install and transport. Their compact size makes them easy to integrate into the limited space of a van.

How to Use Dry Toilets in a Van?

ICAG® dry toilets operate on a compostable sawdust system. After each use, whether inside or outside your van, add a handful of sawdust to absorb odors and facilitate the composting process. Sawdust also helps limit odors and makes toilet maintenance easier. Plan to empty the contents of your toilet when it is full, or at least every 10 days. Ideally, find a composter to do this. The resulting compost can be used as natural fertilizer for plants, contributing to soil fertility and plant growth.

Another advantage of ICAG® dry toilets is their ease of maintenance. The reservoirs are designed to be easily emptied and cleaned, minimizing the effort required to keep the toilets clean and hygienic.

Why Choose ICAG®?

By choosing ICAG, you are opting for handcrafted dry toilets made in France (specifically, in the southwest). We use poplar wood from local sawmills, which is sturdy and naturally keeps pests away, eliminating the need for treatment.

Using untreated wood for making composting dry toilets allows us to use wood scraps and sawdust without worry. It’s a closed loop!

For over 30 years, we have been building various types of dry toilets to meet our customers’ demands. Feel free to explore our different models on our store.

In conclusion, dry toilets are an ideal choice for van travelers looking for sustainable and environmentally friendly sanitary solutions. They offer freedom of movement and autonomy while reducing the impact on water resources and preserving nature. Among dry toilet models, ICAG® Mobile dry toilets stand out for their specific design for vehicle travel and ease of maintenance.

With ICAG® dry toilets, you can fully enjoy your van adventure!

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In addition to environmental constraints, the design of sanitary facilities must address long-term economic and maintenance questions. What if your municipality switched to eco-friendly public toilets? We have invented and patented i Cube®, an innovative and environmentally friendly public toilet, offering an alternative to traditional public toilets! We’ll tell you everything.

Common Constraints of Traditional Public Toilets:

Between installation and maintenance costs, waste management, water consumption, hygiene, and security issues, choosing a public toilet solution is not an easy task for municipalities.

1. Installation and Maintenance Costs: Public toilets require a significant initial investment for their installation. In addition to the costs of construction or equipment purchase, expenses related to plumbing, electricity, water supply, and connections to sewage networks must be taken into account.
2. Water Consumption: Traditional public toilets use drinking water for flushing, which represents a significant use of water resources. With water becoming increasingly scarce and costly, automatic flush toilets are far from being a solution!
3. Security: Acts of vandalism and graffiti are unfortunately common concerns. Public toilets often need to be locked when not in use to prevent damage.
4. Universal Accessibility: Public toilets must be accessible to everyone, including people with reduced mobility. This requires compliance with accessibility standards in terms of dimensions, adapted equipment, and ease of use. Municipalities must ensure that their choice of public toilets meets universal accessibility requirements and offers easy and comfortable use for all users.

The Essential Role of Municipalities in Environmental Protection:

Citizens are increasingly aware of the importance of environmental protection, and they expect their municipalities to take measures to contribute to it. By meeting these expectations, municipalities strengthen their legitimacy and trust relationship with citizens.

Municipal environmental involvement can take many forms.

It can involve protecting natural spaces, improving energy efficiency, using sustainable materials in construction projects, supporting renewable energy, or implementing effective waste management programs such as selective sorting and composting, which contribute to reducing the ecological footprint.

Cela peut passer par la protection des espaces naturels, par le renforcement de l’efficacité énergétique, l’utilisation de matériaux durables dans les projets de construction, en soutenant les énergies renouvelables, ou bien en mettant en place des programmes de gestion des déchets efficaces, tels que le tri sélectif et le compostage, qui contribuent à réduire l’empreinte écologique.

Municipalities have a crucial role to play in protecting the environment and ensuring a healthier future for future generations.

i Cube®: An Eco-Friendly Public Toilet Solution:

It is precisely to meet all these needs that we have invented and patented the first eco-friendly public toilet: i Cube®!

C’est justement pour répondre à toutes ces nécessités que nous avons inventé et breveté la première toilette écologique publique : i Cube® !

It is an innovative alternative to traditional public toilets. With i Cube, you don’t need to be an expert in dry toilets; the user doesn’t have to worry about sawdust; everything is managed automatically… and all without water!

i Cube® toilets do not require any connection to existing sewage networks. This offers you total freedom! Easily install i Cube where you need it, according to the frequency of use; move it elsewhere if needed on busy days. Parks, beachfronts, tourist locations, or any other public spaces—this toilet adapts to your municipality’s needs, not the other way around.

How Does the i Cube® Public Toilet Work?

i Cube is placed on a flat surface and takes up no more space than a parking spot. These autonomous i Cube public toilets are operational in minutes. This modern cabin is accessible to people with reduced mobility. The door is opened by a contactless button, just like the waste disposal system.

Users are unaware that they are using dry toilets. Without adding any carbonaceous material (sawdust or straw), solid and liquid waste are directed into two communicating tanks. The action of liquids reduces the volume of solids.

A flow of air generated by mechanical ventilation maintains a slight depression inside the public toilet cabin at all times, preventing any odor or bacterial pollution.

A GSM communication box allows remote dialogue via a dedicated application. Several parameters can be received, such as attendance rate, tank filling rate, remote programming of opening/closing times, and more.

Daily cleanliness maintenance is required, just like for traditional public toilets.

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What type of ecological dry toilets are there?

I remember when I was a child, my grandparents had an outdoor toilet at the bottom of their garden. I had to be really desperate to use it. It was a simple pit, a wooden platform with a hole, a nauseating odor, and through that hole, a terrifying view of tailless maggots (larvae of the Eristale fly) that scared me to death… but I feel like I’m spoiling your appetite. Let’s continue…

The waste was transported using a pole with a pot attached to the end. It impregnated the compost with garden waste, which composted until the next gardening season. This produced surprisingly large vegetables.

But this practice is now a thing of the past. Such facilities cannot be called eco-friendly toilets.

Eco-friendly dry toilets can be defined as follows:

• No water is used for waste evacuation.
• The receptacle is watertight.
• Hygienic conditions for the user are maintained.
• Waste is treated without using water.
• Processed materials are returned to the earth.

In the 1970s and 1980s, during the era of hippies, of which I was a part, toilets were not always present in the rural homes we occupied.

Inspired by Scandinavian countries but simplified, our eco-friendly dry toilets consisted of a 100-liter container, a wooden lid with a hole for seating, and a sprinkle of sawdust with each use. Installed outdoors, they allowed us to meditate in the morning sun…

We had reinvented litter-based dry toilets at minimal cost!

No odor, no water, no sanitation, just basic composting.

These eco-friendly dry toilets have improved over time.

Here are the various categories of eco-friendly toilets as we can categorize them today:

Litter-Based Dry Toilets (LBDT):

The simplest and most commonly used type, recognized by law. You can find them in stores or from artisans like us. They can also be DIY projects, either simple or more sophisticated, depending on your choice and DIY skills.

For this, you need a container, a seating area, carbonaceous material (sawdust or similar), an outdoor composting area, and, of course, a composter. Both feces and urine go into the same receptacle.

A variation of litter-based dry toilets, called separating dry toilets, involves separating solid waste from urine. Solid waste and litter go to compost, while urine is stored in a container and joins greywater for treatment. In our opinion, this system does not offer significant advantages—it reduces the weight in the container, extends the emptying period, and can lead to odors when the two components are separated, urine and feces.

It also presents more obvious disadvantages, such as the need for a separate urine evacuation, less effective composting due to the absence of nitrogen from urine, and the complexity of setting up a separation system in dry toilets, which leads to more complicated cleaning.

Lombricomposting Toilets:

Ces toilettes sèches écologiques fonctionnent de la même façon que les wc écologiques à compost. La différence, réside dans le processus de traitement des déchets.

These eco-friendly dry toilets work similarly to composting toilets but differ in the waste treatment process. Feces and urine fall into a lower tank that requires a specific installation. Sometimes a high-pressure microflush facilitates the disposal of excreta when the tank is far from the toilet. Solid waste and liquid leachate are separated in the tank.

The system relies on composting worms in the solid waste, which digest the materials, reducing their volume significantly. Liquid leachate is dried out through ventilation of the tank. These toilets require less frequent emptying, with maintenance every 5 to 10 years depending on usage.

The major drawback lies in the installation, as it needs to be planned during home construction. However, simpler lombricomposting dry toilets can be installed outdoors, taking advantage of the terrain’s slope. This system remains costly, and its operation is delicate. Don’t forget that you need to manage the creatures that do the work in the tank.

Dehydration Toilets:

Similarly, these toilets consist of a seating area, a lower tank, and no sawdust. Solid waste and leachate (urine soiled by contact with feces) are separated, either at the source or through a grill. Using various systems, including ventilation or convection, the solid waste is partially dehydrated. Feces lose much of their weight—about 90% water—become weakly odorous, and less contaminating.

However, in most cases, these dehydration dry toilets require the tank to be buried. During maintenance, solid waste must be composted, which can be problematic due to the volume of material. It requires large composters, a sealed composting area, and significant handling. Urine dispersal in France is regulated by a European standard for agricultural nitrogen distribution. It would take a garden of 250m2 per person to handle urine production, as indicated in an excellent article by EAUTARCIE.

Solid and liquid waste can also be collected by a vacuum truck (the company that empties septic tanks) and joined with traditional sanitation systems. In this case, dry toilets are mainly for practical purposes, as there are no sewer systems and there is heavy usage. There is little ecological benefit in this situation.

These dehydration toilets are costly due to their technology and are only useful in high-traffic areas and places where other systems are difficult to install.

Lastly, the eco-friendly and magical dry toilet:

• Of course, it has a seating area and nothing below!
• Feces and urine are disintegrated upon expulsion by a magical ray that we keep a secret!
• No emptying, no maintenance, no odor.
• Pure bliss, in a way…

Of course, I’m joking! In conclusion, there are many eco-friendly toilet systems with variations, and everyone needs to find what suits them best. None of them waste water, but they differ in terms of waste management. The price of dry toilets varies from a few euros for the most basic models to several thousand euros for the most sophisticated ones.

Before installing eco-friendly toilets, you should think carefully, but environmental considerations should be your guiding factor. Think about future generations and protect the planet!

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By way of derogation from article 3, so-called dry toilets (without the addition of dilution or transport water) are authorized, provided that they do not generate any nuisance for the neighborhood.

• no liquid discharge outside the plot,
• nor pollution of surface or groundwater.

Dry toilets are implemented:

• or to jointly treat urine and feces. In this case, they are mixed with organic material to produce compost;
• or to treat the feces by drying. In this case, the urine must enter the treatment system provided for gray water, in accordance with the provisions of articles 6 and 7.

Dry toilets are made up of a waterproof tank that receives faeces or urine. The tank is regularly emptied into a sealed area designed to prevent any leakage and protected from bad weather.

The by-products resulting from the use of dry toilets must be recycled on the plot and not generate any nuisance for the neighborhood or pollution.

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Whether for economic, practical, or ecological reasons, dry toilets, whether of the litter, separation, or vermicomposting type, are becoming more popular and widespread.

Here’s a brief overview of dry toilets in France and around the world:

Cabane toilette sèche éléphant.

Even though it’s currently impossible to know the exact number of dry toilet users in France, Europe, or the world, surveys conducted in 2010 provide us with some figures. They allow us to observe the diversity of users and uses of dry toilets while we await further studies.

Here are some examples:

Dry Toilets in Europe and Worldwide

In Finland, dry toilets are the primary technique used in second homes (around 500,000 in 2010). In Denmark, several eco-villages are equipped with dry toilets. In Norway, dry toilets are also used in summer cabins, as is the case in Sweden and Finland.

In Germany, over 30,000 dry toilets are in use. Family gardens and several ecological housing developments have dry toilets in buildings ranging from 3 to 4 stories.

Outside of these countries, dry toilets remain a relatively niche and lesser-known technique in Europe, such as in England and Spain.

Some research outside of Europe has shown that dry toilets are relatively well-developed in the United States and Australia.

Regarding “poor” or “developing” countries, as well as countries without running water, dry toilets are likely used. However, their census is difficult, if not impossible. It’s important not to confuse a simple hole in nature with dry toilets with litter.

Dry Toilets in France

The simplicity of installation and its very low cost make litter-based dry toilets the most common type of dry toilet in France.

It was estimated that between 4,000 and 8,000 households (in 2010) were using a dry toilet on a daily basis.

Until the publication of the decree on September 7, 2009, dry toilets were not a recognized and regulated system in France.

The association “EMPREINTE” conducted a survey with 1,712 responses from dry toilet users in France dated February 2, 2010, which you can consult here.

Cabane toilette sèche

Cette carte est  intéressante, car elle permet de mettre en évidence, que les utilisateurs de toilettes sèches étaient plus nombreux (lors de l’enquête) dans le grand ouest de la France.

This map is interesting because it highlights that dry toilet users were more numerous (at the time of the survey) in the western part of France. Over 7 years have passed since this survey, and with dry toilets becoming more popular in France, this map may no longer be representative today.

Since very few studies and surveys are conducted on composting dry toilets, it’s difficult to know the actual number of dry toilet users in France and around the world.

It would be interesting to conduct a new survey to understand the evolution of dry toilet use in our country.

Management of Dry Toilet By-Products

Official regulations or recommendations for managing by-products also vary greatly from country to country. They range from simply burying or disposing of them (United States) to providing advice on composting (Finland). Some states limit their use to ornamental plants, while others allow use in vegetable gardens (Sweden). The use of dry toilets in France requires composting in closed and sealed containers placed on the ground.

Regulation of dry toilets varies significantly from one country to another. Some have strict regulations that leave little room for users, while others allow more flexible approaches.

 Il faut que ça change !!!

One thing is certain, given the current state of our planet, water supply issues, and the awareness of many politicians, as well as a large part of the population worldwide, both outdoor and indoor dry toilets have a bright future ahead.

Source :

“Toilettes du Monde, Les toilettes sèches familiales. Etat de l’art, état des lieux dans plusieurs pays et propositions pour un accompagnement en France,” Oct 2010.

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Sanitation serves the purpose of collecting wastewater, removing the pollutants it contains, and then discharging the treated water into the natural environment. The treatment of wastewater produces sludge that is subsequently reused or disposed of.

There are two main types of sanitation:

Collective sanitation and non-collective (or individual or autonomous) sanitation.

In this article, we will primarily focus on non-collective sanitation.

What is Non-Collective Sanitation (ANC)?

Non-collective sanitation refers to the treatment of wastewater that is not connected to the public sewage system, often colloquially referred to as the “sewer system.”

In France, it represents approximately 15 to 20% of the population, which is more than 12 million people, mainly living in rural areas.

There are approximately 5 million non-collective sanitation systems in the entire national network.

Non-collective sanitation systems are regulated and monitored by SPANCs (public services for non-collective sanitation).
The 4,000 SPANCs are under the responsibility of local authorities. These “public” services are either managed directly or delegated to private companies (primarily Veolia, Saur, and Suez).

As of today, around 3,000 municipalities are not yet covered by a SPANC.

The Obligations:

If your house is not connected to the public wastewater collection network, you must have your own individual sanitation system.

If, on the other hand, your house already has an individual sanitation system, maintenance checks must be carried out periodically, between 4 and 10 years, depending on the installations.

Since January 1, 2011, the seller of a property with non-collective sanitation has an obligation to provide proof of the system’s condition.

Current State of Non-Collective Sanitation in France:

More and more articles report on the deplorable state of non-collective sanitation systems.

According to an article dated 09/17/2017 titled “Storm in the Market of ANC Devices” on the reseauconfiance.org website,

8 out of 10 treatment devices are unacceptable!

Based on CIMAP data (established from diagnostics conducted by SPANCs), 63% of non-collective sanitation systems are non-compliant. 46% of installations are incomplete or malfunctioning, and 17% pose a health or environmental risk.

According to the observatory of data on water and sanitation services (SISPEA), 40% are considered compliant.

According to a spokesperson for autonomous sanitation industry professionals, citing a ministry study: “84% of the installations have non-conformities and require work.”

According to the head of the water and sanitation service at FNCCR (National Federation of Concession and Public Service Authorities): “…installations that pose a real pollution or nuisance problem…represent around 10% of cases” (Le Journal de l’Eau, 2007).

Different ANC Systems:

Different types of non-collective sanitation systems are grouped into two main categories: traditional systems and approved systems.

Traditional Systems:

Among the traditional systems, the most well-known is undoubtedly the septic tank, followed by a drainage field. It requires a significant installation and maintenance cost, as well as a large area for installation, and it is less efficient.

Approved Systems:

Since the decree of September 7, 2009, the Ministry of Health and Environment has approved several individual sanitation systems. Compared to traditional systems, these devices are more compact and efficient. Importantly, they comply with current standards.

Compact Filter:

Whether made of coconut fiber, zeolite, hazelnut shells, rock wool, etc., the principle of compact zeolite filters is similar to sand filters’ operation. While they take up less space, they are generally more expensive than the latter. Like the majority of installations, they require a septic tank upstream.

Micro Sewage Treatment Plant:

It has the advantage of both pre-treating and treating water, eliminating the need to build a septic tank upstream.

Planted Filters or Phyto-purification:

A natural individual purification solution.

This energy-efficient, low-infrastructure, and low-maintenance system are generally reliable. However, it will only be effective if carefully designed, constructed, and maintained.

One of its most common applications is the secondary treatment of domestic wastewater effluents. Phyto-purification can also be used as a standalone system if you use dry toilets.

If you want more information on phyto-purification, here is the address of Graine d’Eau, our neighbors from Lot: https://www.grainedeau.eu/

The Costs:

The cost of installing a sanitation system varies widely. It depends on the type of installation, the number of people in the household, the geographic location of the property, its accessibility, and the type of soil. Costs range from 3,000 to 8,000 euros, including installation in many cases.

As for the mandatory periodic inspection, it costs between 100 and 200 euros.

Conclusion:

The use of dry toilets significantly reduces the amount of waste passing through your sanitation system. As a result, your non-collective sanitation system no longer has to treat blackwater but only graywater. This simplifies its operation, reduces maintenance frequency, and helps control costs.

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Eco-friendly paint, the ocher-red coloring option:

Our dry toilet cabins are made from poplar wood. Its natural characteristics make it an ideal wood for this construction. It naturally repels pests without the need for treatment. It also withstands moisture very well, provided it can breathe (which is the case with our cabins).

Once your dry toilet cabin kit is assembled, it is not mandatory to paint or stain it.

But for those of you who desire a bit of color, we offer, at the time of purchase, an ocher-red colorization option.

We chose this color because it appears to be the most versatile. It blends well with nature, resembling the color of tiled roofs and brick walls. It also complies with the requests of the architects of historic buildings in France, allowing the installation of dry toilet cabins in classified villages.

If you choose to follow our recipe, you are free to experiment with other colors. For example, a sky blue color by the seaside…

Because we always strive to minimize our impact on the planet during the production of our products, we have chosen to make this ocher-red paint ourselves using natural pigments. If you wish to make it yourself, here is our “magical” recipe to create a natural and sustainable dye in less than an hour.

ECO-FRIENDLY PAINT

For this, you’ll need to prepare the following list of ingredients:

• 3.5 liters of water
• 125 grams of flour, for binding
• 100 grams of ferrous sulfate, to prevent the growth of moss (it’s not essential and requires extreme caution during its use!!! Gloves, goggles… Keep out of reach of children and animals).
• 400 grams of linseed oil, for nourishing the wood
• 1 kilogram of natural ocher-red pigment, for color
• 3 or 4 tablespoons of black soap, to facilitate emulsion between water and oil
• Plus, an old pot and a wooden spoon!!!

Then, put on your apron and your chef’s hat, and let’s get cooking for 45 minutes!

• To begin, bring the water to a boil.
• In the meantime, roll up your sleeves and prepare a “pancake batter” with the flour and a little water, ensuring there are no lumps.
• Pour this batter into the boiling water while stirring vigorously.
• Cook for 15 minutes.
• Then, add the ocher and ferrous sulfate,
• Stir constantly,
• Let it cook for another 15 minutes,
• Add the linseed oil and black soap,
• Stir constantly,
• Another 15 minutes of cooking… And…
• It’s ready, all that’s left is to apply it.

Furthermore, you can store your paint for several months without any issues, as long as you cover it and mix it well before use.

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Some of you use sawdust for composting toilets but may not find this material readily available.

In our region, which includes Lot with neighboring Dordogne, sawmills are plentiful, and we easily find this product, which, a few years ago, was considered waste that sawyers didn’t know how to dispose of!

Next to the sawmills, you could see large piles smoking day and night throughout the year. Sawdust disposal used to happen through open-air incineration. These practices are now outdated and prohibited.

Sawdust is no longer waste but a byproduct with value.

Indeed, sawdust is now used for heating kilns, which dry wooden boards. It is also used in communal boilers for home heating and in various industrial sectors as a standalone energy source.

Gone are the days when these byproducts were considered waste.

Why Sawdust Rather Than Wood Shavings in Composting Toilets?

We consider that sawdust is more effective than wood shavings in blocking odors. It is also more convenient for handling because wood shavings tend to fluff up a lot, making them harder to put into the composting toilet’s receptacle. Additionally, a scoop loads more easily with sawdust.

At an equal volume, sawdust for composting toilets will last longer. As you can see, we have a bias! Nevertheless, we have no shortage of wood shavings in our workshop. Still, we have decided to give them another path of valorization. Our wood shavings are collected by the neighboring farm, “La Ferme de Siffray,” which practices organic and sustainable agriculture, as bedding for animals. This bedding is transformed into compost, closing the loop!

Returning to sawdust, we ourselves produce very little sawdust. In fact, it is mixed with wood shavings during machine vacuuming.

The Origin of the Sawdust?

The sawdust you put into your composting toilets must be clean, in the chemical sense of the term, originating from untreated wood. Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find untreated wood. Nearly all the woods offered by building material merchants are treated against insects, fungi, decay, etc. with products that should be approached with caution.

Be cautious with sawdust and wood shavings from carpenters; few work with healthy wood. Even among our colleagues who manufacture composting toilets, you can find products made from particleboard. OSB or others, certainly inexpensive but loaded with glue, which I won’t elaborate on! That’s why we only work with untreated solid wood directly from local sawmills and sourced from our forests.

The ideal option for you is to source from a sawmill, or if you don’t have one nearby, we can supply you with it in 120-liter bags.

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Why Do We Sell Sawdust Bags for Dry Toilets?

We hesitated for a long time before offering this product. Indeed, shipping sawdust across France seemed environmentally unfriendly to us.

Coming from a heavily wooded region, with the Lot and Dordogne nearby, it took us some time to understand the difficulties that dry toilet users face.

In fact, the supply of sawdust or other carbonaceous material for dry toilet litter becomes difficult, especially for those of you in more urban areas.

That’s why, in response to the growing demand from our customers and other dry toilet users, we decided to market sawdust for dry toilet litter.

You can read in our news section an article that explains the reasons for our preference for sawdust over wood shavings.

The Choice of Packaging: Jute Bags

Once the decision was made to sell sawdust bags for dry toilets, another question arose.

Sawdust bag in jute.

What is the most appropriate packaging?

At first, we thought of shipping sawdust in woven polypropylene bags. However, using new bags, even if they are recyclable, seemed like a wasteful and not very environmentally friendly option to us.

Then, another question arose: what will you do with these bags once they are empty? Unsightly and unpleasant to the touch, they are good for the trash.

So, this option did not satisfy us. We thought of another solution.

That’s when we came up with the idea of using second-life bags.

We initially considered rice bags from Asia, which, once empty, could have been reused. However, we quickly realized that these bags were also made of plastic. So, this solution was abandoned.

That’s when we thought of using coffee bags. Coming from South America and Africa, these jute bags, made from plant material, are beautifully screen-printed, sturdy, and in very good condition. 100% recyclable and recycled, they perfectly fit what we were looking for.

Using bags from the other side of the world might not seem very eco-responsible or even absurd, but when we buy them, they have already made the journey and arrived in our territory. Instead of sending them back to where they came from or throwing them away, giving them a second life seems to us to be the most eco-friendly solution.

In addition to this second life, you can also reuse them for your interior decoration and design.

Burlap sawdust bag

Our provider

After much research for our burlap bag supply, we have finally found our supplier.

ValTerreEco is a company selling compost, in bulk or packaged in burlap bags. Also a seller of these coffee bags, it is with them that we decided to work.

They sell quality products at competitive prices, with the same mindset as ours. Reasonable and responsible consumption, ecology, short circuits and sustainable economy are the key words of this company.

This is why we are proud to present them to you.

Valterreco
4 allée de la Magnanerie
26500 Bourg-lès-Valence
06 18 56 41 52

You can visit their store at the following address See their website

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