LaLa Loo

Andy Tannahill, the owner of Composting Toilet Systems, has had a long association with poo, live music and community – that’s Andy second from the right with his loo crew and pump truck at Strawberry Fields.

A visionary and the ultimate can-do man, Andy has been a force for positivity for the best part of thirty years – after launching live music venue The Old Bar in 2001 Andy became fascinated with how we dealt with, or didn’t deal with, human waste while working with a portaloo crew at a music festival.

Always a person to put his hand up, Andy helped build hundreds of composting toilets at festival and community sites across Victoria.

If you’ve ever visited the famous composting toilets at Meredith or Golden Plains music festivals or any number of community events, you’re just one degree of separation away from Andy, who has carefully composted your poo to build fertility and soil carbon on the Nolans’ and other farms around Victoria.

Not content with just transforming our physical poo Andy Tannahill has been a tireless advocate de-icking our mixed faecal feelings bringing the question of what we do with it into the public conversation.

Andy’s lobbied politicians and persuaded health officials to change regulations. He’s even built the cleanest, whitest, most mainstream mobile composting toilet, complete with piped in classical music, to help win over the hearts and behinds of sceptics and doubters.

He’s also leveraged his consumables to generate more impact.

Managing composting toilets on a serious scale means dealing in serious quantities of toilet paper and hand sanitiser.

Through his own sanitiser brand, Clap Hands, Andy has connected his passions by donating proceeds to Support Act, the mental health and welfare organisation dedicated to helping musicians and music industry workers.

Wondering if he could do the same with toilet paper Andy went on an odyssey to find a local manufacturer who could make a shit ton of sustainable loo rolls.

The result is LaLa Loo, an Australian-made recycled toilet paper with 50% of the profits going to Support Act.

Which neatly completes the circle of Andy’s twin passions for live music and turning poo into a positive.

You can find LaLa Loo here in our webshop – it comes in singles, six packs and big 48 roll boxes.

Have a great week 

Chris