Compost toilets

[coopec]

The urine waste could be put into a solar still to convert it back to drinking water.

The solid waste could be used for a campfire on the beach. Burning dried Elephant dung makes a very good mosquito repellent.

I don't know about burning it. You could bury it on the beach maybe? (after dark) ?

 

[coopec]

 

[Stemar]

Burning dried Elephant dung makes a very good mosquito repellent.

I can't help thinking it might make an effective Stemar repellant too ?

 

[Hallberg-Rassy]

I don't know about burning it. You could bury it on the beach maybe? (after dark) ?

A lovely find for some kid wriggling its toes in the sand ... I think no waste overboard is going to become a bigger thing, so perhaps harbours and marinas are just going to have to accommodate this practise in time.

In practise, it sounds better for the individual and environment than pumping out black water holding tanks.

 

[Hallberg-Rassy]

How long am I going to be "on detention" and having my posts delayed?

 

[Whitlock]

But yet you'll go swimming in the sea, or share public swimming baths that have to be checked for fecal counts? Where do you think seabirds and fish poops?

Have you studied how many diseases and pathogens are in cooked meat?

I don't know how long the likes survive in a dry compost scenario. I mean, we're not talking about hot, steaming piles like at Glastonbury Festival here.

I'd have guessed the manufacturers would have investigated this.

In the old days, farmers actually used to compete to pay passing armies to dump in their fields such was its value. Right up until Victorian times both number ones and two were tradeable commodities. Speaking as a someone who aspires to be a professional shit-stirrer, taking the piss used to a highly profitable business.

I'm all for dumping it in fields and gardens, I just don't want it in my face when I open a rubbish bin.

 

[pvb]

In practise, it sounds better for the individual and environment than pumping out black water holding tanks.

As long as toilet paper, etc, is binned separately, holding tanks don't hold horrendous contents. And the volumes involved, compared with the volume of the ocean, are tiny. Certainly it's wrong to empty holding tanks in port or in swimming areas, but otherwise it's surely no worse than the existing sewage outfalls.

 

[prv]

Because human faeces carry human diseases which other people shouldn't be exposed to.

Why are you rooting through bins and cutting open the black bags you find in there?

If you’re not doing that, you’re not being “exposed” to anything.

As is clear, I’m far from a fan of dry toilets on boats, but I don’t see anything wrong with emptying one into a sturdy bin bag (I’d probably lay in a stock of the extra-thick DIY sacks), perhaps double-bagging it, and then putting the bag in a general-waste skip. Nobody‘s going to be handling it after that.

Pete

 

[Whitlock]

Why are you rooting through bins and cutting open the black bags you find in there?
.....
.... Nobody‘s going to be handling it after that.

Pete

I'll assume that your first sentence is not meant to be serious.
As for nobody is going to be handling it after that, what do you think they do at recycling centres? That's where marina bins are supposed to go to.

 

[pvb]

As for nobody is going to be handling it after that, what do you think they do at recycling centres? That's where marina bins are supposed to go to.

At my marina, there are bins for "General Waste" and bins for "Mixed Recyclables". I assume that the "general waste" isn't sifted through.

 

[coopec]

At my marina, there are bins for "General Waste" and bins for "Mixed Recyclables". I assume that the "general waste" isn't sifted through.

What an incredibly sensible comment! (is that all your own work?)

 

[Hallberg-Rassy]

Certainly it's wrong to empty holding tanks in port or in swimming areas, but otherwise it's surely no worse than the existing sewage outfalls.

They're becoming less and less, and the practise is increasing forbidden in coastal areas. Although, as someone pointed out, no worse than what the seals doo.

 

[Scomber]

I must be bored , you've piqued my interest. I wonder what the world poop tonnage is for the world seal population , compared to the equiv human figures?

 

[Hallberg-Rassy]

Don't know but there's some fascinating science being done about the cascade effect of it and, especially, whale poop and how critical it is in circulating nutrients, trapping carbon and so on.

Unfortunately, since I am on 'moderators' detention, I'm not encouraged much to contribute more. Which, I guess, is their aim.

 

[coopec]

Don't know but there's some fascinating science being done about the cascade effect of it and, especially, whale poop and how critical it is in circulating nutrients, trapping carbon and so on.

Unfortunately, since I am on 'moderators' detention, I'm not encouraged much to contribute more. Which, I guess, is their aim.

Let's commiserate!

But being on "moderators' detention" is not the end of the world (I've got a 'back-up forum' just in case!)

 

[Stemar]

I don’t see anything wrong with emptying one into a sturdy bin bag (I’d probably lay in a stock of the extra-thick DIY sacks), perhaps double-bagging it, and then putting the bag in a general-waste skip. Nobody‘s going to be handling it after that.

It won't be bagged after it's had a bit of tlc from the compactor in the collection lorry. It'll then be spread liberally over everything, including the equipment at the landfill.

 

[coopec]

It won't be bagged after it's had a bit of tlc from the compactor in the collection lorry. It'll then be spread liberally over everything, including the equipment at the landfill.

As someone said what happens to baby nappies (Is that what you call them in the UK?) which are full of poo?

 

[Gary Fox]

As someone said what happens to baby nappies (Is that what you call them in the UK?) which are full of poo?

Tucked down the back of the sofa..

 

[fisherman]

One brave local lad saw a nappy thrown from a car, he quickly retrieved it, wiped it all over the car, chucked it in the still open window and legged it.

 

[fisherman]

By the way we found a raft of something very unpleasant in a corner upriver from the Helford moorings one August late morning. We had been thinking about a swim...