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2003-06-15

Little brown shack out back to come back?

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-06-15 08:56 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Invite a few guests and those dry toilets fill up rather quickly. (speaking from experience)

Posted by RW 2003-06-15 20:59:54|| 2003-06-15 20:59:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The amount of chemicals that I would need to deodorize a 'dry toilet' would completely offset any environmental benefits since, unlike the Green Lefties, I readily admit that my shit DOES stink.

Posted by JDB 2003-06-15 21:01:49|| 2003-06-15 21:01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Thats why you plant lots of flowering shrubs (like lilac) and trees around the toilet.(also speaking from experience)

Posted by RW 2003-06-15 21:39:56|| 2003-06-15 21:39:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Using perfume instead of cleaning things up is a very european practice. That practice contributed significantly to the black death.
This is already done commercially (and sanitarily), though I'm not sure how widely.

Posted by Dishman 2003-06-15 22:27:18|| 2003-06-15 22:27:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn, I thought I was the only one that had "environmentally friendly" plumbing growing up... My parents put in "indoor" plumbing just before I brought my bride home for the first time. I've been in on the working end of a spade, both digging a new hole and filling in the old one. There are some new "chemical" toilets that have some features we didn't have in an outhouse, but it still comes down to the same thing. I will have to admit, baring your backside to a cold February wind whistling through the cracks in an outhouse builds character - also frostbite in some very unusual places.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-06-15 22:40:20|| 2003-06-15 22:40:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Clivus Multrum was a name of an entity that was connected with the Rockefeller family, where the entity in question did indeed come up with a waterless toilet, but they lost over $1 million (and probably more) trying to 'implement' this idea. I wonder why...

Posted by Raj 2003-06-15 23:38:57|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-06-15 23:38:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't know how widespread thier use is,but the USFS uses these dry toliets at the Salt river Canyon(Arizona)Rest stop.The times I stopped there the oder was barely detectable.

Posted by raptor 2003-06-16 07:22:29|| 2003-06-16 07:22:29|| Front Page Top

#8 OP where are ya? Things okay?
This is damn eerie. I love it.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-14 9:56:48 AM|| 2004-06-14 9:56:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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