On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well, you also have the old-style outhouse, where you have a small > building, including a seat, located above a pit which receives the waste. > The temporary latrines used at construction sites are much the same, except > that the "pit" is the bottom portion of the latrine, and the whole thing is > hauled away to be emptied. I have seen parks where these "temporary" > portable latrines are in year-round use, to spare the expense of having to > install water supply pipes and sewers. > "Port-a-Potties" would be "chemical" under this scheme. I think the big difference between "pit" and "bucket" is that a pit would be stationary where the container that receives the waste for bucket is removed and dumped somewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_toilet Chemical toilets are often permanent features in displaced-person camps (speaking for Haiti), as well.
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