You can use diafine, in which 1l of solution A and B goes a looooooonnnnnggggg way because you reuse the solutions until they evaporate (if you cannot buy diafine sent me a pm and I'll send you a recipe)
Stop bath, use water+vinegar or water+citric acid and reuse it, but with diafine it is not necessary
Alkaline fixer TF4 or similar work well, and does not need a stop bath. Washed quickly afterwards.
Fixer can be reused, and after it soaks up silver enough you can either let the water evaporate to make a solid sludge or dump some steel wool in there to have a solid steel-sliver sludge and not harm your septic tank..
The main problem is washing after fixing, which uses quite a lot of water if you let it run.
In the best case you would need 5x300ml for 1 roll of 35mm (1,5 l) and yes you can dump that to the septic system or use it to flush a toilet later.
So in total you would need 2-3l to develop a roll of film being wasteful. Being thrifty maybe 1.5-2
PS. This is called the "Ilford" Method for whatever reason but was proposed eons ago by AGFA (before the war)
Last edited by titrisol; 09-04-2008 at 12:30 AM.
Reason: Ilford/Agfa Method comment