Composting Toilets
If you’re building your log cabin out in the wilderness where sewer hookups are few and far between, you don’t need to resort to an outhouse (let’s face it: a middle-of-the-night run outside in cold weather isn’t all that pleasant). As an alternative to a traditional toilet (or an outhouse), you can go with a composting toilet.
These commodes reduce waste to a soil/fertilizer end product that goes right back into the earth where it’s used by Mother Nature. Composting toilets don’t need very much water, and if you vent the system properly, odors won’t be a problem.