'Bog in a bag' an alternative toilet!

Bought one of those for my wife's Birthday a few years back cos she was always complaining about squatting giving her sore knees. She reckons it's the crappiest pressie I've ever given her. There's just no pleasing some people is there.

Cheers

Dunc.

We went metric - and everyone knows that metrication increases the inflation rate!

And why the foldable stool shown in my post above is a little safer.

Phil

No different to disposing of babies nappies though, and a better solution than many people choose when they leave mounds of human excretment and toilet paper on top of the ground.
The bags are supposedly biodegradable and the crystals absorb liquid and get rid of odours so could be carried out of campsites. (Might be best to double bag it though!)

It is aimed at overnight hikers I think, with lightweight seat as well.

I will probably never use it as we have a toilet on board the van but it might be useful when we take our 4 year old grand daughter out fishing in our boat. Twice so far, at the furtherest point from home, she has needed to go to the toilet and won't be persuaded to use a hole in the ground well away from the waters edge, despite there being no one but me and her around!

Agreed Heather, but then none of those practices should be condoned or encouraged. It still amazes, no appals, me the way people leave rubbish stacked high around rarely-serviced bins in bush areas - even those within a few hours of "civilisation" - when they could just as easily crush, pack and carry it out. If you can carry it in full why can't you carry it out empty?

It amazes me how many disposable nappies are left where they are taken off!

have one of those - but haven't used it in anger yet...

Haha...that's good Ross!

Thank god he was a Kiwi

Who allowed him in to claim Oz as home?

Moderators please...it's nowhere near Friday yet...

Cheers.

Yes, it's degenerating into 'toilet' humour John!

This thread is getting bogged down, move on.

na.......no ones had a movement yet......

Tons of it gos into landfill through the normal garbage system everyday, thanks to the councils trucks and city bins.

Still against the law.

They should be banned, they are an environmental nightmare compounded by laziness!

Go Shaker, my sentiments exactly ...

From one Council (Clarence Valley 2012) - advice here on how to prepare a disposable nappy to go to landfill. If its illegal they dont say so.

Cheers,

Val.

I didn't use them as they were a new and very expensive option when we had our family however having been closely involved when our two grandchildren were born, I must say they are a big help to new mothers. So much less washing and drying of cloth nappies, so less water, nappy soaker, detergent and electricity usage as well as the time it takes to do it all.
I don't see it as being a 'lazy' option at all...especially as most women return to work while babies are still in nappies, however I don't like the garbage they generate and I see it as a huge problem environmentally.
regards,
Heather

I guess we will have to just agree to disagree, as I said earlier they are an environmental nightmare that also seem to have made toilet training a thing of the past!
A far as lazy goes, I have seen them behind trees in the High Country, lying in the deserts, in gutters & in car parks where they have just been put out the car door before driving off!

"... they are an environmental nightmare ..."
But that, in and of itself, does NOT make them illegal! That they SHOULD BE is anogther matter (which I agree with, BTW).

Fortunately, my "baby" is 27 and no longer living at home - in fact she's married and working in UK - and I no longer have use for nappies of any type. UNTIL, that is, I need incontinence pads! ;)

Gday
Its not the nappie that is illegal, its the contents of the nappie that is illegal to go to land fill. As John and Val 's council form says," clean the contents to sewer before putting nappie in the bin"..

Agree John, all very easy really. Just wonder why everyone cant manage to do it.

Cheers,

Val.

I'm buggered if I know Val, the rubbish issues I come across in my travels drives me nuts, I'm sure you're just as frustrated.
There is simply no need to leave any rubbish of any sort anywhere.
You cart it in, then cart it out. It's empty and lighter to carry out.

Same people who are too lazy to deal with waste are generally the same who can't put their damn campfire out properly either.

If we don't educate travelers then I have no doubt we will all suffer the consequences.

A little story, I was at the Calvert Ranges off the CSR a number of years ago, I spent more than an hour with the shovel scooping up toilet paper scattered around the camp area and hanging from trees and putting it in the fire.
I made the comment that this sort of disrespectful behavior will really piss the TO's off, nobody likes this sort of rubbish discarded on their own property and wouldn't put up with it, why do it here!

Sure enough, several years later they discontinued permits to the Calverts, one reason given, the rubbish left behind.

How about this for a novel solution.

Reinstate the permits and require the permit holders to carry toilet paper stamped with their permit number :).

add large fines for in correct practices.

cheers

Very true Michael. That is the primary reason why we got the portaloo.

Phil

Hi

I was under the impression that dumping the contents of portable chemical toilets into "long drop" (i.e. self composting) toilets (and even those using septic tanks) was not a good idea...but could be wrong, suppose there is a range of scenarios.

Cheers
Greg

It depends on the chemicals you use. We only use the Coles napisan which is septic safe. Our home black water system is a full recycling unit and it is fine in that.

Cheers

Peter

Good stuff..

Cheers
Greg

Dingo Jim
As a suitable companion, Gift wrapped laxettes work a treat and get things moving even if not 'on the run" so to speak.

Wonder how long it would take to wear the bottom off that one? lol. Bob.

No way not for me, I'd be sitting there enjoying the view reading the paper when some bastard would come driving down the road/track upsetting the abvience.
I'd prefer to take my seat and hide in the bush were no one can see me and upset my relaxation.

John Vic
Serenaded by Butchers Canaries no doubt.

Absolutely Ross :)

The mind boggles!!

What is the maximum speed at which it can be safely used? Surely the bag is superfluous! Great for morning peak hour traffic. You wouldn't want to sit on the tow ball by mistake.