Composting Toilets in your Motorhome

[PaulW2]

What I dont understand is how human waste varies from dog waste sufficiently for it to be OK for one to go in rubbish bins but not the other.

There are all sorts of ways in which we are squeamish which people could question. But we keep our squeamishness. And if we do things that make other people squeamish they don't want us around.

It's often cultural I think.

We don't like people eating dogs for instance. Others do, and may say "but then why eat pigs"? But we still don't want dog eaters in our campsites.

Imagine the social media campaign about all these campers who fill up the local bins with their turds. We'll be run out of town I would imagine.

 

[Ingwe]

At one time I was looking at having one of the toilets that incinerates all the waste you just have to empty a little tray of ashsounded a good idea and looked good, sold the van before I got any further.

If I was doing a self build it’s definitely the way to go, think it was gas or electric operated.

At one time I was looking at the British Rail type of toilet that drops it on the track (mostly in the station) but in this case on the road.

 

[ceilauren]

This seems the way to go a weeks use, all reduced to a cup of ash..I'll bet they are expensive.

Cinderella ..incineration toilets

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Anyone got one to give us some user info?

Whaat £

Our IH 630FL has a lpg one fitted by previous owners. We’ve had it now for almost two years and no problems at all. As stated on other posts on forum you can hear the fan, it does use an amount of gas but bearable. On the other side, empty ash and clean once every three months, no walk to empty cassette in the rain and it keeps the bathroom warm.
Mrs W loves it and thinks it is the best gadget in the van

 

[Andy.Burrows]

Just reading the van specs on the Consort Motorhome website and I see they are offering a composting toilet as an option when buying. Is this becoming a thing? Are any other makers offering composting toilets as standard items?

Be careful. In the New Forest at Setthorns, they do not allow composting toilets.

 

[HKF]

There are all sorts of ways in which we are squeamish which people could question. But we keep our squeamishness. And if we do things that make other people squeamish they don't want us around.

It's often cultural I think.

We don't like people eating dogs for instance. Others do, and may say "but then why eat pigs"? But we still don't want dog eaters in our campsites.

Imagine the social media campaign about all these campers who fill up the local bins with their turds. We'll be run out of town I would imagine.

And, yet, no one bats an eyelid at babies' nappies going into normal bins

 

[Jim]

Be careful. In the New Forest at Setthorns, they do not allow composting toilets.

What about separating toilets

 

[helzie2020]

Our IH 630FL has a lpg one fitted by previous owners. We’ve had it now for almost two years and no problems at all. As stated on other posts on forum you can hear the fan, it does use an amount of gas but bearable. On the other side, empty ash and clean once every three months, no walk to empty cassette in the rain and it keeps the bathroom warm.
Mrs W loves it and thinks it is the best gadget in the van

What happens to urine?

 

[gus-lopez]

I was just pondering aloud why the councils are saying no to it.

They cut down/stopped incinerating in the UK due to emissions

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[PaulW2]

Be careful. In the New Forest at Setthorns, they do not allow composting toilets.

Even if we do it like some dog walkers and leave the bags tied up suspended from branches?

 

[Northernraider]

My van has both , standard cassette type toilet .


And for countries without(free) proper cassette dumping facilities.

The best value separator toilet on the market.

Bag fits in loo bowl , goes in bin with normal rubbish bag .

Urine goes where men of most European nationalities go.

 

[Dorsetboater]

I get fed up with them calling them composting toilets they not they are seperating toilets.

For a composting toilet to work you would have to carry shit around with you for 9 months constantly adding to it. Who has the payload for that ?

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[Hayesdec]

My van has both , standard cassette type toilet .


And for countries without(free) proper cassette dumping facilities.

The best value separator toilet on the market.

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Bag fits in loo bowl , goes in bin with normal rubbish bag .

Urine goes where men of most European nationalities go.

Peeing in the plastic bag I’m ok with. But shitting in the container I’m not good at ?

 

[SafetyPete]

The question of why not human waste if dog waste is ok, is one of scale.

There are a relatively tiny amount of dog bins compared to the amount of human toilets, and the contents go for incineration, the cost of which is borne by the local authority.

If humans start using dog bins, there would need to be far more, larger, bins, and the cost would increase dramatically, bear in mind the cost for sewage is borne by the water authority, not the local authority.

They just dont want the extra infrastructure cost when a hygienic low cost system already exists - this against a backdrop of councils moving to 3 weekly collections.

Genuine composting toilets are a very good idea, seperating toilets are far less so and may actually be worse if people start putting bags of excrement in normal bins - as evidenced by dog walkers and truck drivers (and others) hanging their poo bags on trees for others to clean up.

 

[eddie]

If you pee in the sink, and poo into a plastic bag you have the same thing

Mind you, I still view sitting on a little plastic box and weeing and pooing into a little plastic pot unsavory

A porcelain loo, with a proper lid and seat is the minimum requirement for a camper in my opinion

 

[PaulW2]

Our IH 630FL has a lpg one fitted by previous owners. We’ve had it now for almost two years and no problems at all. As stated on other posts on forum you can hear the fan, it does use an amount of gas but bearable. On the other side, empty ash and clean once every three months, no walk to empty cassette in the rain and it keeps the bathroom warm.
Mrs W loves it and thinks it is the best gadget in the van

Does the crematorium generate any odours when it operates, and does it produce any floating ash?

 

[Garry - June]

Can never quite get the reasoning behind these...the fact that urine still gets separated and in to a tank that has to be removed and emptied just like a normal cassette sort of defeats the object in my mind..

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[Plumb]

Just reading the van specs on the Consort Motorhome website and I see they are offering a composting toilet as an option when buying. Is this becoming a thing? Are any other makers offering composting toilets as standard items?

Are they the same as combustible!

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

A porcelain loo, with a proper lid and seat is the minimum requirement for a camper in my opinion

Ditto, can just see Mrs CCs face if I gave her a plastic bag and said “go fill that”

 

[gwyntaxi]

This seems the way to go a weeks use, all reduced to a cup of ash..I'll bet they are expensive.

Cinderella ..incineration toilets

Welcome to LeeSan’s online store

Lee Sanitation - The leading supplier of marine sanitation equipment and marina pump out systems. We stock a vast range of marine toilet spares, parts & service kits from many leading manufacturers.

www.leesan.com

Anyone got one to give us some user info?

Whaat £4,500 How Much !!!

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How fu[<k!g Much.

 

[jockaneezer]

I'm getting "EV/save the planet" vibes from these fancy bogs ? I don't have a problem if they were truly a "composting" toilet, but in most cases, you still have to bin two lots of waste at some point ?
Bit like EV's saying they are "zero emissions" until you look into where/how they get their electricity/batteries from ?

 

[hja]

Can never quite get the reasoning behind these...the fact that urine still gets separated and in to a tank that has to be removed and emptied just like a normal cassette sort of defeats the object in my mind..

Yes but less of it because no added water and, apparently, easier to dispose of!

 

[carolyn]

Dog waste isn't nice but although there are some diseases/illnesses that can be contracted from it they will be small as little cross species infection etc, however the number that could be contracted from human excrement will be a lot higher ... COVID, herpes etc anyone?

You can’t catch herpes from faeces and you’re highly unlikely to catch COVID as it’s broken down quickly in the gut.

People are worrying unnecessarily, how do they think people with stoma bags get rid of their bags of poo . Think of all the poo filled nappies chucked in the rubbish.

 

[Riverbankannie]

People are worrying unnecessarily, how do they think people with stoma bags get rid of their bags of poo . Think of all the poo filled nappies chucked in the rubbish.

Do I really have to
But, yes, of course this is done all the time.

 

[POH]

I get fed up with them calling them composting toilets they not they are seperating toilets.

For a composting toilet to work you would have to carry shit around with you for 9 months constantly adding to it. Who has the payload for that ?

Lenny that depends on how big a dump you do everyday or in some cases twice a day !!!

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[Lenny HB]

Lenny that depends on how big a dump you do everyday or in some cases twice a day !!!

I'm a 4 times a day man.

 

[Bill-H]

Can never quite get the reasoning behind these...the fact that urine still gets separated and in to a tank that has to be removed and emptied just like a normal cassette sort of defeats the object in my mind..

The solids part, over a few days is quite a bit less than the liquid urine over a similar time scale, and which can be emptied down a normal loo - or as others sugest, just emptied where most men go in the countryside.
My seperating loo solids container lasts several weeks before needing burying but I pee a couple of litres of water every day.

 

[POH]

I'm a 4 times a day man.

so you are full of sh**

 

[Jim]

Think of all the poo filled nappies chucked in the rubbish.

I read somewhere that in the UK alone, we dispose of 3 billion soiled nappies a year!

 

[carolyn]

I read somewhere that in the UK alone, we dispose of 3 billion soiled nappies a year!

You’re right so I don’t think we need to worry about a few composting/separating toilets. Like everything lets hope people dispose of the poo properly and we don’t see huge bags hanging on trees

Apologies to the squeamish if they’re about to have their dinner….

 

[Minxy]

You can’t catch herpes from faeces and you’re highly unlikely to catch COVID as it’s broken down quickly in the gut.

People are worrying unnecessarily, how do they think people with stoma bags get rid of their bags of poo . Think of all the poo filled nappies chucked in the rubbish.

Just trying to give an example as to possibly why viewed differently to dog poo by councils etc, not being 'medical' obviously the actual illnesses that can be contracted from human waste aren't high on my knowledge base but obviously there are risks, however small, but multiply that by a lot more people putting human waste in 'street' waste bins and it's a much bigger problem.

In Ireland you'd have a job on your hands (literally if you're not careful!) as in a lot of places the public bins have very small openings so pushing a bag of human poo in could be a bit difficult ... best to use strong bags and double bag too!