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theoldwizard1
Explorer II
Mar 23, 2017

Composting or cassette toilet. Who gas one ?

I am surprised that you almost never see either of these as an option in RVs ! They would save fresh water and save weight by not having a black water tank.

For 2 people, a cassette toilet, one that can be emptied into a standard toilet sounds like a good idea.
  • I don't believe that RV toilets use that much fresh water...and even less if you "save" shower water and dish rinse water for toilet use. Additionally, where are you going to dispose of the cassette toilet material safely and legally?
  • We had one of those when we were in our popup. It would last for about 7 days/nights if it were used only at night.

    My question is, why would you want one? There are 4 of us, but when there was only 2 of us, I wanted a "real" toilet in mine. We even thought about installing one with NO water tank, just using the hose to fill it.

    You don't ever have to carry around a black tank with anything in it. We dump ours, even if we are only doing a weekend trip. Use it regularly, but before we pull out of FHU sites, we fill the tank almost full and completely dump. If we only have dump stations, we will drive from our site to the dump station full, then dump.

    We carry enough water to flush the toilets, but it's usually only 5-6 gallons. Why carry around all that weight?