Chuck Gould wrote:
Dan wrote:


Take a look at the sawdust toilet (
http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter8_2.html ).


I had to laugh at this line:

Experience has shown that 150 people will require four five gallon
containers during a serious party. Therefore, always be prepared for
the unexpected, and maintain a reserve toilet capacity at all times by
having extra toilet receptacles available, as well as extra cover
material. Incidentally, for every full container of compost material
carried out of a toilet room, a full, same-sized container of cover
material will need to be carried in.


I don't know how I'd find 150 people willing to attend a "serious
party" where the toilet facility was a bucket of sawdust. :-)

If you use a sawdust or peat moss toilet aboard a boat, you need to
haul a quantity of sawdust or peat moss- hardly practical if there
isn't room for a typical porta-potti...
and then you still have to figure out a way to dump it somewhere. I
can't imagine that it would be easy to get the sawdust or peat moss
into the "pump out hose" at the marina.

The sawdust or peatmoss could be kept in plastic bags that would fit
into small irregular spaces that abound on boats. I agree that there is
no practical way to dump the bucket at the marina, so its only suitable
for day trips or perhaps a weekend.