öKlo

öKlo is an Austrian company that designs, builds and rents mobile composting toilets — marketed as an ecological alternative to conventional chemical portable toilets. Its product line is built around dry separation toilets that use sawdust, a waste by-product, instead of water or chemical additives; the company states this saves roughly five litres of drinking water per person per use. The range spans rental and purchase options, from classic and barrier-free cabins to urinals, wash stations, showers, heaters, children's toilets, changing tables and DIY mini kits, and the units are described as Austrian handcrafted products with fast delivery and certified, insured service. The brand positions itself as a green, sustainability-driven business and says it is a pioneer in research on solid and liquid human waste, promoting composting and the recovery of human excreta in the economy. Beyond the hardware, öKlo offers a full service model: staff set up the dry separation toilets, handle regular cleaning and repairs, and dispose of waste properly. It also publishes a rental guide to help event organisers estimate how many mobile composting toilets they need. The company's origin story is a friendship: three schoolmates — Reinhard, Christian and Niko — who grew up around Schrick in Austria, bonded over shared interests and a VW bus they named "Andrä", and were first exposed to unpleasant portable toilets at the festivals they attended. That experience led them to build a better, more pleasant mobile toilet. öKlo presents itself as a thoroughly green company and quantifies its impact: it says 450 rented toilets save an average of about 59,130,000 litres of water, 59 MWh of electricity and 12 tonnes of CO₂ per year. The brand has appeared in radio and television coverage and operates primarily in the Austrian market.

öKlo's history begins with a long friendship. Reinhard, Christian and Niko met in primary school in the area around Schrick, Austria. They were not close friends at first — each was somewhat of an outsider: Christian and Reini had older brothers, and Niko had moved to the countryside and stood out partly because of his name. What brought them together was the limited offering for children and young people in and around Schrick. They played at the local football club and tried other clubs with varying success, and enjoyed ice hockey, though that was only possible in winter. Mopeds brought a first sense of freedom, and during that time the three became inseparable, discovering that their interests overlapped in many areas. Shortly after getting their car licences they acquired their first VW bus, which they named "Andrä" — the name came from their first breakdown near St. Andrä im Lavanttal, where they ran out of diesel. From then on, as the company tells it, they were no longer merely friends but allies, like brothers. Tinkering with the bus to get it fit for the next festival became, for a time, their sole purpose in life. It was at those festivals that they first encountered the unpleasant mobile toilets that would later inspire the business. They used to be proud of managing three days without a toilet, but on the drive home they would worry about their first toilet visit back home. That experience of grim portable toilets planted the idea of building something better. Out of this background the three founded öKlo, an Austrian company that designs, manufactures and rents mobile composting toilets. The brand grew into a full product family — including the öKlo Klassik, öKlo Barrierefrei, öKlo Mini, öKlo Urinal, öKlo Waschstation, öKlo Dusche, öKlo Spüli, öKlo Kombi, öKlo Missoir, öKlo Heizlüfter, öKlo Campingklo, öKlo Kinderklo, öKlo Wickeltisch, öKlo LoBu, öKlo LuliDu and the öKlo Mini Bausatz — and a service operation in which staff set up the dry separation toilets, clean and repair them, and dispose of waste properly. The company describes itself as a green business through and through, advocating not only sustainability but also the composting and economic recovery of human excreta, and says it is a pioneer in research on solid and liquid faeces. It markets its toilets as clean, nose-friendly and ecological, made with Austrian handcraft, with fast delivery and certified, insured service, and notes that it has been featured in radio and television. öKlo quantifies its environmental impact: it states that 450 rented toilets save an average of about 59,130,000 litres of water (roughly 23.65 Olympic swimming pools), 59 MWh of electricity (about 30 wind turbines running year-round) and 12 tonnes of CO₂ (about five circumnavigations of the Earth by car) per year.

• Reinhard, Christian and Niko meet in primary school near Schrick, Austria.

• The three friends acquire their first VW bus, named 'Andrä' after a breakdown near St. Andrä im Lavanttal.

• At festivals, they first encounter the unpleasant mobile toilets that later inspire öKlo.

• öKlo is founded as an Austrian composting toilet company.

• öKlo expands into a full product family including Klassik, Barrierefrei, Mini, Urinal, Waschstation and Dusche.

Ecological, service-inclusive alternative to chemical portable toilets, positioned as Austria's number one for mobile WCs and eco toilets.

• öKlo Klassik

  Classic mobile composting toilet.

• öKlo Barrierefrei

  Barrier-free mobile composting toilet.

• öKlo Mini

  Compact mobile composting toilet.

• öKlo Urinal

  Mobile urinal.

• öKlo Waschstation

  Mobile wash station.

• öKlo Dusche

  Mobile shower.

• öKlo Heizlüfter

  Toilet heater.

• öKlo Kinderklo

  Children's toilet.

• öKlo Wickeltisch

  Changing table.

• öKlo Mini Bausatz

  DIY mini toilet kit.

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3. 3oeklowikidata.org