The Incinolet Toilet: Incinerate Your Poops! (additional video)

additional commentary by State Rep. Timothy Horrigan; May 13, 2012

On my main Incinolet video page I promised "no poops," and I was good to my word.  However, I found this video which does show some turds being incinerated, and which gives a good explanation of how the device works.  Don't worry: the video is relatively tasteful and it is odor free.  I learned of the existence of incinerating toilets while reading about a 2009 House Petition filed by Duane Besso of Londonderry, New Hampshire.  He built a small house a few years back on a property which was mostly wetlands and lacked the room for a septic system.  The town refused to let him live there— even after he suggested installing an Incinolet.  He eventually asked the legislature to order the town to pay him a large sum of money, to order the town to grant him each and every permit which he had been denied, and to begin proceedings to remove two District Court judges from office.  This was in 2008-2009, when the Democrats were in charge, and none of his demands were met.

The video was made by a famous conceptual artist, Tom Sachs. The setting is a little odd: the narrator is an attractive young woman with a charming foreign accent (possibly Russian).  She is (supposedly) living in a cabin where the Incinolet is wedged between a sleeping alcove and a trash container which seems to have been salvaged from a Hardee's burger shack.  She begins the video by unlocking her toilet (which for reasons unexplained has a padlock on it)— and she ends it by discarding the ashes from the Incinolet in the trash bin.  Putting ashes in the trash, even when you think they have cooled to room temperature, is very dangerous.
I never heard of Tom Sachs until I saw his Incinolet video, but he has done some major projects, including "The Mars Project," which re-enacted a flight to Mars, culminating in a major installation at New York City's Park Avenue Armory in May 2012.


As far as I know, this is not Mr. Besso's house in the video. It was probably made at Mr. Sach's studio.


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Here is a video about the place where this video was (presumably) made. Some cat turds and a toilet (not the same one as in the previous video) make a cameo appearance about 16 minutes in. All of Mr. Sachs's advice applies to being a New Hampshire state rep,  even if my assigned committee frequently ignores it:



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