Editing Composting toilet (section)

== History ==
{{Further|Dry toilet#History}}

In the late 19th century in developed countries, some inventors, scientists and [[public health]] officials supported the use of "dry earth closets", a type of [[dry toilet]] with similarities to composting toilets, although the collection vessel for the [[human waste]] was not designed to compost.<ref name="Moule1880">{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files/FordingtonHenryMoule1801-1880.html|title=Fordington, Biography, Rev Henry Moule, 1801-1880|website=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=2017-03-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110509061829/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files/FordingtonHenryMoule1801-1880.html|archive-date=2011-05-09}}</ref>