Pop up Pooper

Depends how many will use it in a day. If it was me, I'd change after every use.

I had a portable fold up for years until I saw the light and purchased a port a potti. I should off purchased it years ago.

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Did you see the movie Wild Hogs?
You supposed to hang the bag in a tree so the bears don't get it.

Myles

After traveling with a porta potti, won't leave home without it.. Just to easy, and so convenient. Especially using the nappisan in it, works a treat.. Worth every cent.. Easy to empty and clean.. Best $120 we have spent.. Odog

Haven't used these pop up poopers Toni, but have been to BRB this year.

If you're staying there for the full time, then you may have to change bags, but depends how good the drying powder is too. If you did change bags, you could "double-bag" the full one, and take it into the dump point at some stage. Some were doing that this year, and grabbing a shower while they were in Birdsville.

As long as you have a pop-up ensuite, it shouldn't be too bad. Plenty of ensuites there this year, that's what I used, and it was much more comfortable than standing in line at the ports loos. :-)

Hope you enjoy it, but take plenty of warm clothes for the evening concerts!

Bob

Oh yeh...after seeing this in the new letter today I was going to start a thread about it but seen this thread already running... I will make a comment about the text that made me smile...

(The wait is over! Pop-Up Pooper is back! This unique portable toilet is the ideal solution in lots of scenarios and is both hygienic, environmentally friendly, and robust (rated to hold a 150 kg weight). :) :) :)

150 kg...wow that's a lot of sh**

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I bought a portable toilet, best $80 I ever spent on camping gear, although the opening isn't that large. It can take a bit of forward planning and tucking to get all the relevant apertures in alignment.

It doesn't leak or smell and cleaning and dumping the contents is easy. The only thing is to leave the top tank empty when traveling or it warms up, the water expands and leaks out into the bowl and then can splash out into the vehicle. Mine is in the back of a ute, so not that inconvenient.

If teaming it with a pop up en suite tent, watch the video and practice putting it away at home so as not to look like an idiot when you are doing it with an audience. I put mine up in the back yard; it took about 1 minute. Then packing it away....I read the instructions, did battle with it for 1/2 an hour and admitted defeat before throwing it in the shed in disgust. Google and a few youtube clips and it was all suddenly so easy! Now I can pack it away almost as quickly as it goes up.

Pack some sand pegs too, last thing you want is a willywilly sending your loaded portaloo and shower tent flying. Cleaning and emptying that might not be that easy.

Something similar is used by expeditions, school groups and field researchers in the bush. Called ezygonow which comes with a tripod seat. Seems to work fine and is better than water/chemical-based loos when water is scarce.

G'day all,
I know this is a little off track.
But I'm a little concerned about these bags.
I know they stay that they are bio-degradable, however most bags only bio-degrade if exposed to UV light from the sun or bio-degrade when they contact moisture.
If it is UV degradation, dump points don't have UV exsposure and if it is moisture what stops the bags breaking down through normal use.
I know a little about sewage treatment as I'm the Supervisor of a large 40+ Meg treatment plant and these things would be of great concern for our process.
I would greatly appreciate some info from someone with a better understanding of these things.

This thread is going places I had never imagined! But I think we'll get a porta potti and a tent thing and have a practice run here. ( at putting the tent thing up!!) Enough said. Cheers Toni

The advertising in the EO Newsletter states

"The bags are biodegradable so can be buried or disposed of in RV dump stations. As a last resort they can even be flushed through a normal toilet. An amazing concept that works."

I think a lot of dump point operators would be up in arms at this suggestion. Can Exploroz please provide more clarity about this aspect?

I think anything that puts more plastic into the waste system is a bad move, even if called degradable. The liquid systems seem to work well if managed properly and the right ingredients are used.

Last year I watched a team clear a blockage in a sewer that passed under a bayside park. We were having a family picnic before they started. The majority of the material pulled out was plastic and lots of 'disposable' nappies. I asked one of the workers about it, after they had finished, and he said it was a common problem.

I have tried a number of different types over the years, and the thetford porta-potti system is by far the best. A bit of nappisan and water and you are all set. And if it's a bit too low to get up from (knee problems etc) then it can be set on top of something to bring the height up a bit. I'll see if I can locate the plans for a simple ply setup (folds flat) that the porta-potti sits on safely. If I locate it, I'll post here later.
regards