Green and "eco-friendly"

As we planned for this house we decided we wanted to be as self-sustaining and earth friendly as we could. So our first purchased was an Envirolet composting toilet. Thus removing the need for a septic system.

I went to the county courthouse to make sure I knew all the rules and codes before we started building the house . It was then that I found out that they do not recognize the greywater system that we designed and we need to put in the septic anyway.

I wish I could make sense of what our regulators want. They want us to conserve and do things better for the earth and then they make it impossible for us to actually do that. I wish there was a system in place that allowed these "specialists" to make decisions not only from what they learned at school, but also what they might learn from "everyday Joe's" like us.

So now my septic system will be a very expensive rainwater cistern for watering my garden.