--- In [email protected], "Pengalanty" <allan...@...> wrote:
>
> Ahoy There!
>
> No so quick on banning any threads.
>
> I actually found an interesting point on toilets just recently, regrading
> COMPOSTING toilets. It seems that the "Fluid" content of effluence, is the
> bugbear of composting types on boats, as it's sterile.
>
> There are at least TWO makes that separate the "wee" and the solids. One
> discharges the fluid into a removable plastic shaped largish bottle, (Don't
> know the capacity). This seems to be the ideal one for boats. The solids
> seem to end up in a cardboard box with a plastic type bin liner, both are
> bio-degradable and clean and easy to dispose of. How and where one disposes
> of the solids is another matter.
>
> Does anyone have any experience of this type?
>
> I have Narrowboating friends, at present on the continent, who have just got
> rid of their Scandinavian Composting loo, (They say it was smelly and
> problematic from time to time), and have just replaced it with one of the
> newer types. I haven't had any good or bad report yet but I am thinking
> along these lines myself. I have a Canadian "Envirolet". It is not the
> easiest to control, or empty! It hasn't put me of Composting ones, as the
> alternatives also have their weaknesses. At least composting types are more
> flexible; Bucket and Chuck-it types and Holding tank types - When full ARE
> full and cannot be used until empty. Holding tanks can also get "smelly" in
> the hot weather, due to mostly lack of oxygen.
>
> Keep the toilet threads coming! ~Allan~
>
Why not just use a couple of plastic containers? One can be emptied, suitable
wrapped,in dog poo receptacles and the other into the canal. No storage
problems. :-))
Sue
