It is our belief that every event can suffer from their sanitary facilities and the challenges of waste management. We know it's possible to avoid and reduce waste created at events and recycle much of that organic waste through compost and vermiculture techniques.
We also know that a large proportion of that waste is avoidable if composting toilets services are used and that this is the most effective way to provide toilet facilities at large outdoor events such as music festivals, and other cultural and sporting events.

In Nature, the paradigm of waste does not exist. “Waste” as a concept is a totally human invention. We are far better of thinking of waste as an unprocessed by-product. In fact all of the material exiting the body can cease being considered as waste. By harnessing the innate energy and nutrients we don’t have to dispose of anything.
A good dump makes a great festival. Patrons feel looked after, event managers are at ease, and the Event sets an example in sustainability to the rest of society.

Change happens in the world through revolutions, or incrementally, through local decisions. As drops in an ocean and drops in a bucket are still the same size, they create different amounts of change.
If a change can make so many people happy at a festival, with their shared use of a space, then that change becomes the new normal, the accepted. These sorts of good ideas are contagious.

We believe that patrons using Natural Event toilets will be aware of their small but important change to something that every one in the world deals with. We help people understand that if they want to help anyone or anything then dealing with their own crap first is a beautiful place to start. It is also symbolizes a decision to have a perception adjustment.



Festivals are themselves a cultural force. Festival organizers have the opportunity to cast a form of Utopia, according to the values and the wishes of the community they represent and creates. Increasingly, Festival managers understand the power they can have to influence their patrons’ lives at the event but also to inspire about great possibilities for the living outside the festival bounds.

If what Natural Event does can be done on a large scale for a festival, then it can certainly happen at a domestic level. Festivals show their councils and society in general that it is possible to do on a large scale, and small scale.

Imagine the impact on water storage levels, in reservoirs for massive and smaller cities everywhere, if the drinking water was not used to flush the loos.
The effect can be more pronounced when considering houses on tank water.




Farms should not be nutrient mines. The harvesting of crops takes away nutrients from the soil in its mass. These nutrients are replenished by importing nitrogen and phosphorous, mostly sourced from inorganic sources such as fossil fuels and mining Pacific islands to the coral core for guano.
The nutrients, from the farms, having passed through the human body, are then taken away via water borne transport to a central processing area. Here energy is applied to remove the recently added nutrient load from the water that brought it to the processing plant. In may cases the excess nutrients are then pumped out into the ocean, changing the ecosystem and thus affecting the marine food chain as well as the land food chain.

If it were possible to systematically return the excess nutrients after human use back to the land then we would simply be acknowledging our participation in our own eco logical nutrient and food cycle. It is basic chemistry meets biology means life situation.

Nature grows the seed, incorporating carbon from the air and all other nutrients from the soil.
We eat the fruit, extracting vitamins, fibre, and energy and then pass on liquid and mass high in nitrogen, the most easily lost nutrient.

The liquid and mass then pass in to the soil and are recaptured by the root system of the plant.

The world should be eating food that has been grown in soil incorporating the nutrients from our own poo, as well as all the animal poo we create through farming.

Perhaps some patrons of the toilets may install composting toilets in their home. Maybe some one might engage another positive change or even attitude somewhere else. We also aim to encourage the use of energy and water efficent technology like light bulbs and shower heads. We hope this site will grow as a resource for sustainble products and systems for other purposes. It's all good stuff.

Power to the people.

Feed the worms

"Feculentus fecundus"

"Feculent" and "Fecund" follow each other alphabetically in the English language, and in most dictionaries. Coincidentally, they also accurately describe what composting feacal material into Humanure* is all about.

Feculent
ADJECTIVE
Of or containing dirt, sediment or waste matter:
Their feet are slipping on feculent bog
DERIVATIVES
Feculence noun
ORIGIN
Late 15th cent: from French feculent or Latin faeculentus, from faex, faec- dregs.

Fecund
ADJECTIVE
Producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth;
fertile : a lush and fecund garden:
figurative: her fecund imagination
technical (of a woman or women) capable of becoming pregnant
DERIVATIVES
Fecundity (noun)
ORIGIN
Late Middle English: from French fécond of Latin fecundus

So feculentus fecundus turns out to be a brilliant motto for Natural Event's composting philosophy. From the dregs comes abundance and fertility. Well there certainly is an abundance of human feaces in the world, and our mission is to turn this into an abundance of fertile soil, worms and worm juice.

*Joseph Jenkins coined the term Humanure; the title of his fantastic book viewable online The Humanure Handbook

The Think Tank

It's a well-known fact that releasing one's bowels requires one to be in a reasonable state of relaxation. One must leave the daily stresses at the toilet door and focus on the task ahead. The mind and body relaxes in unison to facilitate a smooth and gentle process. In today's busy life, this is often the closest people get to achieving a meditative state. In these moments it's not uncommon to feel clarity of mind, a bright idea, a new focused sense of direction, a sense of relief and even a desire to read something. My grandfather certainly liked the latter option every morning.

Every toilet is a "Think Tank" as long as it meets the prerequisites of providing a relaxing and comfortable ambience and in deference to this side of toilet life Natural Event presents this page as a place to air bright ideas.
Of course, a good toilet experience can occur in many different settings. Here‘s a brief look at a few.

Nature
Nature offers an endless variety of experiences, from camping ground composters to the forest floor squat. Finding a great spot with privacy and view is one of the most rewarding experiences of all. Squatting is very good for bowel movement, so the old forest floor can be one of the best. Just make sure you bury your poops in the bioactive layers of the soil (i.e. the top humus where the good bio-organisms live) and keep around 60 meters or 180ft away from water bodies.

Domestic
Some of the most relaxing moments come from a quiet moments on one's own throne. Whether that's the old outhouse or the latest in house wonder is a matter of personal choice. An old sage once said “if it’s Yellow, let it Mellow, if it’s Brown, flush it down”. Some thing in that for every one we think. Also, it is a fact that the burning of a match immediately after release removes odours. Amazing but true. Also the place to find some very interesting reading that will say alot about the primary user. Quite a common place to find local arthouse cinema’s yearly schedule. The domestic loo can sometimes be a place to spend a little time with yourself, to ponder, to remember, to realign.

In Public
Not recommended, however there are some examples where more public ways of going to the loo are possible and acceptable

Which ever way you look at it, a good poo deserves a relaxing moment with peace of mind in a comfortable space!