Composting Toilet
Hi, Has anyone switch to the composting toilet? Is so, please expound on your experience with the conversion. Thanks, Bill
Forum Discussion
Most truck camper owners are enviromentally concious (not necessarially enviromentelists) we try to leave our campsite foot prints clean for the next camper. I'm sure that all of you would agree there is a difference between peeing on a tree when hiking or hunting and dumping the contents of your holding tanks on the ground... even the small amount in a cassette toilet or a gallon of urine from a composter.
The laws and regulations are changing:
Our municipal sewer system piping has been completely relined or totally rebuilt here in Oak Ridge to meet federal requirements. There was a mandated date that it had to be done by and the city got it done. They had to build some very large tanks to hold excess sewage during time that there might be too much for the pipe lines to hold.
The rebuilt system was recently tested to make sure that the sewage is no longer contaminating ground water or overflowing into our rivers and streams.
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Cattle lots can no longer "flush" the waste animal urine and poop into the creeks and rivers. Retension ponds are no longer just dug pits that allow the wastes to soak into the ground.
The way we used to farm isn't good enough any more. And cities can't legally dump sludge on farmers fields... too many heavy metals get into the food chain,
Questions:
Do you think that it is OK to dump a gallon of urine every day at the base of a bush at your campsite.
Do you think that it is OK to dump 40 pounds of partially composted poop at the base of the same bush or in the campfire ring at your campsite as you are leaving?
Do you think it is your obligation to haul it all to a legal dump station?
I have been impressed by the number of Californians that carry poop bags to clean up that part of their dogs waste.
The laws and regulations are changing:
Our municipal sewer system piping has been completely relined or totally rebuilt here in Oak Ridge to meet federal requirements. There was a mandated date that it had to be done by and the city got it done. They had to build some very large tanks to hold excess sewage during time that there might be too much for the pipe lines to hold.
The rebuilt system was recently tested to make sure that the sewage is no longer contaminating ground water or overflowing into our rivers and streams.
===================
Cattle lots can no longer "flush" the waste animal urine and poop into the creeks and rivers. Retension ponds are no longer just dug pits that allow the wastes to soak into the ground.
The way we used to farm isn't good enough any more. And cities can't legally dump sludge on farmers fields... too many heavy metals get into the food chain,
Questions:
Do you think that it is OK to dump a gallon of urine every day at the base of a bush at your campsite.
Do you think that it is OK to dump 40 pounds of partially composted poop at the base of the same bush or in the campfire ring at your campsite as you are leaving?
Do you think it is your obligation to haul it all to a legal dump station?
I have been impressed by the number of Californians that carry poop bags to clean up that part of their dogs waste.
