Burning down the loo?

Bea, all you really need to do is burn the paper not the waste. You can do this even standing up so 3rd degree burns are unlikely. You may need to use a dry sheet to start the burning off process. Just as a matter of curiosity, how long a crow bar do you use. Perhaps you should consider an extension bar to it but personally, I couldn't wait that long to start work!

is that sleeping logs lie?
anyway, back to the script. burning the paper does not produce a massive fire that you can toast your bread on, although it is best to set the fire after you have finished, being careful of course of local conditions.ie wind & bush fire.
its a sorry site to turn up somewhere to be greeted by last years toilet paper that has been dug up by animals or exposed by weather/water.

My answer to this is dig your hole deep enough to sprinkle a bit of dit on top each time it is used then at pack up time and no longer required add some dry grass etc set it alight let it burn down then fill the hole in.

The burnt grass will kill the smell and prevent it being dug up.

reminds me of the old paperbag on the doorstep scenario
heheheheheh

I normally urinate on my dump so the paper is soggy and wet and nearly disintegrating. I also put some of the local decaying vegetation in the hole before backfilling so that these micro-organisms on the decaying vegetation can also feed on my matter.

Burning the waste with diesel or grass is a bad idea as the heat kills all decomposting microbes so it takes forever to rot.
Digging too deep for a one off jobbie is also bad as the decomposting microbes are in the top few cm of soil - for a one off no deeper than 20cm, burning the paper, cover with the dug soil and 100m from water courses.
For longer stays a deeper latrine, burning the paper and throwing in a handfull of topsoil is the go so the microbes can go to work - no long, hot fires ie: diesel or leaf litter fires.
Urinating on the paper could be an alternative method of getting the paper to rot in larger holes as the urine would increase the nitrogen content of the paper and make it wet so the decomposers can work on it.

Overseas ie:USA and some places in Europe, it is illegal to dig and bury human waste. All solid waste has to be retained in some receptical and carried out to dumping (so to speak) stations. Maybe for high usage areas in Aus this should also be the go.
For a humerous look at this see if you can get the book "How tobleepin the Forest" - I dont know the author.

Cheers

Why not just 'dump, wipe, burn" then put a shovel of soil on top.
Seems simple enough, thats how we do it, burning in the hole works better than any air freshener too, also drives the dunny budgies outa the dunny tent.

What would be REALLY cool is this.........

If we could introduce something into our diet that allowed us to defecate with a skin around it, sort of like a sausage, just twist & snap!

How good would that be?

Cheers

Wolfie

This one is for Lone Wolf. That sausage thing sounds good, only I hope you put it back on the bbq,that way would be the cleanest recycling and good for the enviroment . I wish you good luck.