Looking for a experienced and reputable dealer and installer of composting heads in the northern Chesspeake Bay area
Both are explicitly illegal, within an NDZ.... just dump the urine container over the side ...... Guess you could just dump the compost over the side too if that's easier.......
I was referring strictly to the implication that a composter could be dumped where a holding tank could not. No such place. I bet most do dump their pee bottles where they aren't allowed.Minne, it's not the same as "just flushing overboard".
Let us all know which tree has raw feces under it. Your last deposit is not likely composted at all. Would you drop your shorts and go next to that tree?..bring it into the woods and dump it under a tree (which I do)
It's really the only good method, IMO. Of course, if it's a plastic bag, that's a shame.....bag it and dispose of it accordingly.
Are you saying there is a place where urine is specifically legal? None I know of. Where you can legally dump your urine, you could flush a traditional head straight into the same water, #2, paper and all.The urine, where legal, can be dumped overboard,
It's not that it's complicated. It's how well some will take to the idea. Let's not be critical of how people feel about these personal things. I don't care one way or the other, but I am aware that many of my guests would find it objectionable.Also, it's not any more complicated for guests than a pump toilet (with its valves, pump handle etc.). They are really quite simple to use and I've never had a guest screw up.
I acknowledge their advantages, but their weaknesses as well. While I've not used one aboard, I have in camp sites. They are great, when there are no other options. I've also used outhouses, porta-potties, etc, but most would not like them aboard either.If you've never had one on board, it's hard to understand the simplicity of a composting toilet and the advantages.
Erika, have you ever tried coir instead of peat? If so, did it make any difference in the desiccation process. I've only cruised un north so far, but we have never got less than a month using a compressed brick of coir. In the summer the southern Great Lakes can be incredibly humid, although I assume it's not as moist as what you deal with....Cons
*Cruising, we use a lot more peat then I estimated( 1 gallon of peat a month, Ha!). Cruising we use a gallon of peat every 10 days, sometimes every week. The high humidity in the tropics requires more peat to properly desiccate. We do not have a vent or agitator, so that may be a factor. Poo is 75%ish water so dry it out, not ugh to dispose of.
This is our painful process of dum...ery other day doesn't exactly sound painless.
Tree huggers argue there are pharmas in urine. I think they'll only be happy when there are no humans walking on earth......Urine is sterile, non toxic and pretty much innocuous. A lot of folks don't seem to look at it this way, but that a reality of life......
Oh, absolutely agree copacabana. So far I've usually managed to find a remote place to dump, off in the woods. In a few cases I've dumped into an existing outhouse (hole in the ground style). I've yet to be forced into bagging and dumping in a garbage bin, but that day may come as we move further into urban areas ... or maybe it won't.Mike, the most ecological way to dump the composted stuff is in the woods, off the path, under a tree. It's all organic material after all. I admit this isn't an option in a city, where perhaps a dumster is easier. Anyway, I'm preaching to the converted in your case...
I have no idea what YOU do in your shower, but what I do NOT do is pee in it. Both of my showers use sumps and I really don't want these smelling of urine or having to clean the urine out of them.wonder what they do when they're in the shower and need to pee? Of course they do. To pee in the boat shower while in the marina would be wrong, and hypocritical. And according to some, even illegal.