I first thought it would be done with pipes bit with the permafrost in some regions it would become solid.
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well….you don’t.
the traditional solution is the “long drop” type stand alone latrine. you just dig a big hole, put a toilet seat over it, and every few years you dig a new one 10 feet to the right. when your only dealing with single household’s worth of people, its a mostly management situation.
for larger set ups with road access, you can build a septic tank that can be kept above freezing, and just pumped out when needed.
The same way it’s done in pretty much all remote settlements that are not connected to the water grid. Septic tanks. There’s a septic tank buried in the ground outside the house and all waste is deposited in there. This tank has to be emptied periodically when it fills up by a truck
Many of our Canadian alpine huts have an outhouse that simply drops down into a barrel. Once full, the barrels get a lid and swapped out for an empty one (2 person job). The full barrels are flown off by helicopter when the hut custodians come to do maintenance.
If the ground is always frozen the poop stays frozen and that mitigates a lot of the issues of a latrine. If the ground is frozen only some of the time probably sceptic tank installed in the summer
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