Garbage and garbage pails

[S-n-L]

Hello everyone,

DW and I will soon be picking up our 2008 Holiday Rambler Navigator (45 foot). This is our first rv and have a lot to learn. What do you do for garbage pails inside the moho and where do you keep them? When you are boondocking where do you store your garbage until you find a place to dispose of it? I assume you put it in the basement but what do you store it in?

Thanks,

Stuart & Leslie

[down_home]

Like second reply.
A trash can with white trash bag liner, under the sink. Doesn't hold that much but stops and campgrounds have dumpsters etc for it. Two people don't generate too much.

[Passin_Thru]

I am married to an Italian and she does things Grandmas way. We compost at home so we save coffee filters and grounds and anything like paper towels, napkins and food that will compost in a metal bucket with a lid. We recycle and then have very little trash to take home but it all is kept in 30 gal bags.

[eabc5454]

Our new MH has two trash cans in the cabinet under the sink - one for recycling and one for regular trash. We use them both, with tall, flexible kitchen bags. I always carry a few large 55 gallon contractor clean up bags. They will hold several of the kitchen bags full of trash and make darned good rain ponchos!

Elizabeth

[doxiemom11]

We have a small wastebasket that fits in the cabinet under the bathroom sink for NON-FOOD items only. In the kitchen we have a plastic grocery bag that we fill as the day goes by. We take this outside to the dumpster every night. We have found that if you keep food scraps inside, you attract things you don't want to attract. So - we never leave any dirty dishes or food scraps/garbage inside overnight. We also do not boondock, but are fulltimers.

[crasster]

bigred1cav wrote:
We use the plastic bags from grocery stores. Dispose daily in appropriate disposal areas.

With a 45 footer you will be most likely in places that have disposal areas. Boondocking I think would result in many calls to tow trucks for removal from being stuck in mud or soft spots.

Same for us, the bags are perfect.

[FuzzyKnight]

We use a metal trash can with an electronic lid that opens and closes when you get close to it. It uses tall kitchen trash bags. When boondocking we have a regular plastic trash can with locking lid. We transfer inside trash to the out side when full.

[louiskathy]

Our main kitchen garbage can is a plastic one with a push to pop open lid. Plastic grocery bags fit inside it nicely. I've hunted for another... can only find the metal ones that are not as wide as mine.

But it fits just in front of the fridge and is just short enough that it allows the fridge door to clear it. Two eye hooks and a small bunge cord hold it in place all the time.

Bathroom: Mine fits under the sink. I took a tall metal toilet brush holder, tossed the lid... screwed a few threaded machine screws around the rim (blunt ones, not the pointy wood screws)... to hold bread bags, folded over the rim, in place. For the top I found a plastic swing top from a desk top garbage can and with a little black tape around the rim ... that fits snug. Easy to pull off and push on.

Toilet area: An AIR TIGHT plastic "cookie jar" with a screw off lid and a snap top... holds a bread bag perfectly. Put the bag inside, fold the top of the bag over the rim and screw the lid on.

Ants love garbage cans. You want to empty the kitchen garbage at least every other day.

[bigred1cav]

We use the plastic bags from grocery stores. Dispose daily in appropriate disposal areas.

With a 45 footer you will be most likely in places that have disposal areas. Boondocking I think would result in many calls to tow trucks for removal from being stuck in mud or soft spots.

[BobR]

We use small 2-3 gallon bags and empty often. No need to keep smelly garbage in a confined space. Now recycling can be a problem and there are times I have a 30 gallon bag of cans or plastic by the time I find a recycling drop off.

[workhardplayha1]

Some in my neighborhood think that is why windows open:D

[2gypsies1]

We have a good spot at the end of our kitchen cabinets for the wastecan. When we boondock we take it with us when we need to dump and there's usually a trash can by the dump facility. If not, we have asked the forest service office what to do with it. We have also gone to an actual campground to spend some time after boondocking and we deposit it there. We really don't generate a lot of garbage. We recycle, too. We don't store a big bag of garbage. When we have a small grocery bag full we dispose of it. We can't take it 'home'. We have no home other than our motorhome. When we boondock in Quartzsite, AZ with a large group, someone is always offering to make a 'garbage run' to the town facility which gladly accepts it. We'll also get fuel or go to a fast food place to eat and take our 'small' bag there. Folks are always emptying their cars of trash at the fuel stations. The key is a 'small' bag of garbage only - not a huge Hefty bag of garbage and trash. Recycle and burn what's burnable. By the way, cans or bottles are not burnable. (We've volunteered at parks and have had to clean out ugly firepits of unburnables.) There are also folks who are on vacation for a couple weeks traveling across country and not all go to private campgrounds. They're not going to take it home with them.

[mowermech]

Around here, nearly every USFS campground we go to is a "Pack It In, Pack It OUT" area. There is NO garbage pickup. The people in the nearest towns usually don't want campers filling their dumpsters, either, so our garbage goes home with us.
We have a plastic trash container that fits under the sink, lined with a plastic bag. We also have plastic bags that we use to pick up the "presents" left behind by our dog.
We tie the bags tightly, and store them in the dump valve compartment until we get home. During a three or four day trip, we might generate one or two bags of trash. It simply isn't a major problem.

[Go_Dogs]

We have a small galvanized garbage can for outside. It has a handle that locks the lid down. I keep it pretty clean and when we leave the house, I keep the duro logs, or charcoal/wood chips in it. In the camper, I just hang a plastic bag off of a drawer pull for trash. I don't boondock, so I can empty the trash every night.

[rgatijnet1]

I use a kitchen waste basket that fits under the sink and uses the standard 30 quart plastic draw string garbage bags. We dispose of them as often as they are filled and have never had to keep a full garbage bag in the basement but we do not boondock where a dumpster may not be available. The draw string garbage bags do seal up tight if you are boondocking.