gobug, I haven't settled on a composting toilet yet.
Although I will be deciding here in the next few days.
I'm wavering wildly between building my own and purchasing one. My logic in considering purchasing one is fairly simple: I suspect the powers that be will accept a manufactured composting toilet much more easily than one I put together myself.
I'm trying to avoid the authorities

--- however, building codes are changing rapidly around here. And I've been wandering about trying to gather info on people who've actually installed both composting toilets and grey water systems here. In essence, what I've found is some commercial operations have used the composting toilets with knowledge of the state and, although the state isn't crazy about grey water, if you tangle with them enough, they okay it.
It's really hard to decide but I need to decide quickly, because the pipe running out back thing will be getting pretty disgusting pretty quick

AND I want to get things set up beneath the radar of any authority in such a way that they could reasonably say *oh, well, it's not perfect but it'll do*.
I was going to go with septic - had a good price and someone with great recommendations to do it - but something tells me ten years down the line, that will be wasted money.
When I make my final decision on the composting toilet, I'll post it here, with my reasons for that choice.
It's hard to decide! I have seriously been worrying over this for at least a year and one half!