Ahoy There! No so quick on banning any threads.
I actually found an interesting point on toilets just recently, regrading COMPOSTING toilets. It seems that the "Fluid" content of effluence, is the bugbear of composting types on boats, as it's sterile. There are at least TWO makes that separate the "wee" and the solids. One discharges the fluid into a removable plastic shaped largish bottle, (Don't know the capacity). This seems to be the ideal one for boats. The solids seem to end up in a cardboard box with a plastic type bin liner, both are bio-degradable and clean and easy to dispose of. How and where one disposes of the solids is another matter. Does anyone have any experience of this type? I have Narrowboating friends, at present on the continent, who have just got rid of their Scandinavian Composting loo, (They say it was smelly and problematic from time to time), and have just replaced it with one of the newer types. I haven't had any good or bad report yet but I am thinking along these lines myself. I have a Canadian "Envirolet". It is not the easiest to control, or empty! It hasn't put me of Composting ones, as the alternatives also have their weaknesses. At least composting types are more flexible; Bucket and Chuck-it types and Holding tank types - When full ARE full and cannot be used until empty. Holding tanks can also get "smelly" in the hot weather, due to mostly lack of oxygen. Keep the toilet threads coming! ~Allan~
