portaloo

Shovel and folding toilet seat are all you will need. Portaloos take up too much room and use heaps of water to operate properly.

Hi David

We have a built in caravan Thetford which uses minimal water, and used bathing or hand wash water can be used.

Mh

Hi Motherhen, sorry i didnt mean to post under you earlier, typo error, yes agree but i was more relating to traveling without a camper or van and carrying it in a vehicle.

Hi David - I probably would have said the same thing if you had posted separately as my comment was about water usage. I cannot see that a portable toilet would work any different to an in-built one.

With problems of 'sorbent gardens' left in the desert, as well as the privacy aspect, carrying a portable toilet is a good idea and may be a requirement in the future as it is now in some places. Camping is no longer permitted on the Gibb River Road where there are no toilets, regardless of rig, because of these toileting issues.

Mh

Great answer bluefella

Where do you empty a Porta loo if you are remote?

Hi Shaker,

Read Motherhen's blog :-)

Since the contents are reduced to a slurry it can be emptied into a decent hole - so you do need a shovel if going remote. But maybe you only need to dig a hole every few days.

Cheers,

Val.

Slurry or no slurry, it's still the same amount, except that you are introducing chemicals into the soil.
I really don't need a blog to help take care of one of life's most basic necessities.

When we carry the portaloo we don't wait until it's full to empty it. We empty it when we are at the last available dump before going remote and hope to make it to the next dump. When necessary we also limit it's use to No 2's for even longer times between dump points.

I believe the slurry is also less damaging to the environment anyway. Is it? No 1's don't hurt it. Except anyone's for a few days after chemo will as it can still be quite toxic.

As far as a shovel is concerned, we always carry a shovel. It has other uses apart from latrine duty.

Phil

Shaker

You said "you are introducing chemicals into the soil.". If portaloo users stick to the sodium percarbonate products like napisan etc all you are introducing is sodium, oxygen, and hydrogen. Cant see any issue with any of those (given the amount of salt naturally already in our soils).

For me the upside of more people using portaloos is that there just possibly might be fewer white butterflies decorating roadside stops.

A shovel is fine by me, but times do seem to be a-changin'

Cheers,

Val

Honky, please say that you don't really do that. Would you care to drink/swim/wash just downstream? There is more in that slurry that just some environmentally friendly chemicals - isn't there?

If you cant find a dump point or toilet to empty your portaloo into, please dig a hole a reasonable distance from a watercourse and bury the sludge in that. That way soil bugs can break everything down before too much gets into waterways.

Val.

I was only kidding as I have not used it yet.
It is mainly for a few days set up in remote and is part of the shower tent kit.
It is for the women/girls and number 2's for the blokes.

Honky