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Alternative WCs There are currently more than six billion people in the world, and this number continues to grow every second of every day. For centuries humans have used water to remove waste from our direct contact. In the 1800’s the unsound practice of dumping our faeces into the nearest body of water began. The flushing toilet served to remove our faeces from our sight and smell by putting them into a complex system of underground pipes. Every enthusiastic camper knows not to shit upstream but our society gives us no choice but to turn our rivers, bays and oceans into cesspools. Societies determination to ignore our own waste products threatens to bury us with the very things we choose to ignore. Below I will try to outline some of the alternatives available to the common Water Closet type water flush toilet. Oil Recirculating Toilets Oil Recirculating Toilets don’t use water. They are closed loop systems where mineral oil is used to flush wastes away rather than water. Oil and waste is collected in a storage tank where the waste sinks to the bottom and the oil floats to the top. The oil is then filtered off from the top of the tank, filtered and fed back into the cistern ready to be reused. Meanwhile