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Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - How To Use All The Weird Toilets You’ll Find Outdoors - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

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There you are, visiting a remote cabin, when it’s time to poop. You walk into the bathroom and there’s a toilet seat, like normal, but underneath it is nothing but a hanging plastic bag. What do you do in it and how do you dispose of it after? Don’t worry, IndefinitelyWild is here to help you poop properly.

Incinerating Toilet

Where You’ll Find It: Waste difficult to dispose of? Incinerating toilets only produce about a tablespoon of ash per normal human bowel movement, and they require no water to operate. So, you’ll find them in remote arctic research stations, tiny cabins, onboard boats and anywhere else that needs to prioritize ease of waste management over cost.

What It Does With Your Poop: Burns it! The benefit here is that the ash is both sterile and odor free. Plus, theres very little of it. So, it’s easily dumped, buried or scattered. And, burning your poop doesn’t eliminate the nutrients contained therein, so the ash makes a great soil amendment on the farm or around the garden. 

The trouble is, incinerating toilets require power. Most use electricity, meaning they can only be installed in applications that are connected to the power grid, use an alternative form of generation (like solar) or at least have a bank of car batteries hooked up. There are some types that operate on propane, diesel or even natural gas, for applications that already have those fuel sources hooked up. Solar heat can even be used in some, specific units. 

All that makes these toilets relatively expensive. Popular Incinolet electric toilets start around $2,300 for a unit capable of handling the poop of four humans. They obviously also require transportation of the bulky, heavy toilet to wherever you want it, as well as installation. So you’ve got to be pretty serious about low-waste poop disposal to want one. 

How You Poop In It: The key here is to make sure you properly place a bowl liner (typically a paper cone) in the toilet bowl before each use. You poop and pee in that, then close the lid and operate a pedal or lever that drops the liner full of poo into the incinerator. There’s typically a safety mechanism that prevents the incinerator from firing while the lid is open, but it’s still a good idea to identify the firing button ahead of time and to avoid pushing it while your butt is hovering over the bowl. Once you’ve dropped the liner into the incinerator and ensured the lid is closed, you push that button and your poop and pee are burned right up. Thanks to an outside vent and very hot temperatures, there shouldn’t be any odor or smoke. The ash falls into a removable waste pan which will need to be emptied once every few uses, depending on its volume.

I feel like I should explain the need for the liner: It allows your nasty poop to collect in it and not on the bowl. So, when you release it to to fall into the incinerator, there’s no skidmarks. Use the liner.

Bag Toilet

Where You’ll Find It: The ultimate in impromptu human waste catching, plastic bag toilets are extremely portable, very cheap and last as long as you have plastic bags to fill with poop. So, they’re great for car camping, boaters on a budget, disaster relief and even for use in your own home, in an emergency.

What It Does With Your Poop: Catches it in a bag that you can then dispose of in the trash. In emergencies or post-disaster, when concerns about environmental damage are trumped by the need to eliminate potential pathogen vectors, you can also burn or bury the poo-filled bags. 

How You Poop In It: Well, that depends on the form of toilet being used.

Dedicated plastic bag toilet seats exist that capture the edges of the bag under the seat. The key with them is to make sure the bag is adequately retained around its entire perimeter. 

You can make an easy plastic bag toilet using a 5-gallon bucket and a tight fitting lid. Just wrap the bag around the top of the bucket and tie it off on the outside so it stays up. 

While outdoors in a remote, sensitive environment, you can just go directly in the bag (carefully!) or just use it to scoop your poop like you do with your dog’s. 

With that last option, you tie off the bag after each and every use, then pack it out either in another bag or in a section of capped PVC tube. More details in our previous article, How To Poop In the Woods. 

With the toilet seat or bucket, you may want to make the bag last across multiple uses. Make sure you close the lid to minimize odor and the spread of disease. Adding lime or kitty litter to the bottom of the bag, then putting a little scoop over each go can help with this as well. Then you simply remove the bag when it’s “full” and tie it off.

There’s a new take on the old bag toilet that will vacuum-pack your poo in a foil baggie.

Zero Gravity Toilet

Where You’ll Find It: Visiting the International Space Station? Then prepare yourself to use a zero-G toilet. Other forms of space travel, including Virgin Galactic, don’t include toilet facilities. Hope you’re good at holding it!

What It Does With Your Poop: The short version is that liquid waste is vented to space while solid waste is dried, compacted and returned to earth. One less thing to potentially run into in orbit. 

How You Poop In It: While it might seem practical to employ the natural vacuum of space, poking holes in the space station is generally frowned upon. Instead, a powerful fan sucks air down a tube. To pee in this tube, men and women select the appropriate funnel and urinate into it. A suctioned connection is not required; you “hover” within an inch or two.

To poop, they hold a special baggie under their bums that won’t let solids pass through, but does allow air to pass through. So, the same fan sucks the poop into the bag and holds it there. The astronaut (or rich visitor) then ties the bag off and inserts it into a waste collection drawer where it’s compressed. Since the Space Station is a closed environment, the air that fan sucks through is filtered to remove odor and bacteria, then circulated back into the living environment. And you thought the flying fart cans that are commercial airliners were bad.

Composting Toilet

Where You’ll Find It: An affordable alternative to the combustion toilet, these also turn your poop into something less gross and more useable without water or a septic tank. So, you’ll also find them in remote cabins and similar environments. These differ from pit toilets (which you’ll find in most outhouses) in that they keep the human waste separate from groundwater, keeping the local environment safe from pathogens.

What It Does With Your Poop: You’re basically just pooping into a deep pit or enclosed container in which environmental conditions are optimized to encourage microbe reproduction. These “eat” your poop, removing pathogens and breaking it down into a useable, organic fertilizer. 

Left at its natural pace, this process is slow and only able to deal with a limited quantity of poo. So, to make composting toilets more suitable to regular, high-volume use, apply heat, active venting (fans) and other techniques to encourage the breakdown. 

The result should be a dry, odorless material that should look, feel and smell like the compost you produce in your garden. You then dispose of the compost by scattering it outdoors, or use it to fertilize your farm or garden. 

Some composting toilets may additionally facilitate the process by diverting urine, keeping the waste as dry as possible.

How You Poop In It: In most, you do your business, then add a scoop of peat moss, sawdust or ground coconut husk that absorbs some moisture and cuts down on odor. You’ll typically find this adjacent to the toilet. As with pit toilets, it’s key that you use only biodegradable toilet paper and put no other foreign matter into the toilet. You really, really, really need to close the lid, too. This prevents odors from invade the bathroom, instead allowing them to flow out through the vent pipe that rises above the roof, where they can be spread out by the wind.

Vault Toilet

Where You’ll Find It: At National and State Parks, campgrounds and similarly high-use outdoor recreation places. You’ll spot them because they’re permanent structures that don’t have electricity or water hooked up, but do have prominent vent pipes protruding from their roofs.

What It Does With Your Poop: Your poop falls down into an underground chamber that’s typically 750 to 13,000 gallons in size. And there it sits until a truck comes and pumps it out, then transports it to a municipal water treatment facility.

How You Poop In It: These toilets are far from weird, but I’m including them here simply to perform a public service. Please, please, please close the lid when you’re done. These toilets are designed to manage odor by allowing it to flow out the vent pipe. If you don’t close the lid, the odor simply permeates the bathroom space, making it absolutely terrible to use. If everyone does close the lid, they remain pleasant places to take a poop. Same concept in a Port-A-John.

Have you used (or failed to use) any other weird toilets outdoors? Tell us about them.

Top Photo: Gareth Bogdanoff

source: http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/how-to-use-all-the-weird-toilets-you-ll-find-outdoors-1714620265

by Wes Siler

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Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - Stop flushing your toilet - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

It's a habit we can no longer afford, one that produces instant gratification but causes long-term harm. But faced with the choice to stop, deeper impulses almost inevitably override our rational thinking.

Gaining control over this behavior won't be easy. But given its wide-ranging consequences, there's really no alternative: We have to stop habitually flushing our toilets.

Given the drought plaguing the western United States, this simple, cost-free way for people to conserve water would seem like a no-brainer. But anewly published study by three Indiana University researchers, led byMichelle Lute, finds Americans are highly resistant to making this behavioral shift.

The research, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, points to four distinct barriers to reducing flushing following urination: ''disgust sensitivity, (the) habitual nature of flushing, norms regarding cleanliness, and lack of pro-environmental motivations.''

While that's a formidable list, Lute and her colleagues argue ''targeted interventions'' addressing these issues could lead people to think twice before flushing, thus helping us conserve precious water.

The study featured 1,008 Americans recruited online (with a median age of 33). They began by answering a simple question: ''How often do you flush after you urinate at home?'' They then responded to a series of inquiries about household water use, their willingness to conserve water, and their sensitivity to disgust (which, as psychologist Jonathan Haidt has documented, varies considerably from person to person).

Nearly two-thirds — 63 percent — reported they ''always'' flushed, while 22 percent responded ''most of the time,'' nine percent ''half of the time,'' and five percent ''sometimes.'' Sixty-seven percent of women reported always flushing, compared to 61 percent of men.

Among the reasons prominently cited were ''being taught to flush, and the habitual nature of flushing.'' Two-thirds of participants said they "would flush first when encountering a guest's urine," while half said they'd do so if the liquid was left by their significant other.

Few realized how much water they were cumulatively wasting with this flush-first mentality. Participants estimated they used 29.2 gallons of water per day indoors; the average figure for Americans is actually 69.3 gallons, and toilets can account for up to a quarter of that amount.

The researchers noted water usage could be reduced through such interventions as checking for leaks and/or dropping a brick in the toilet bowl. Their study suggests either of those approaches would likely face less resistance than a campaign to simply flush less often.

''The most common open-ended response for always flushing was contamination-based (using words like disgusting, unhygienic, unsanitary), followed by avoiding smell,'' the researchers report. ''Results suggested that disgust sensitivity leads to increased flushing.''

That sensitivity can produce some erroneous assumptions. Although urine is ''sterile and rarely infectious," some study participants who always flush ''perceived that unsanitary elements of urine can transfer beyond the toilet bowl and contaminate the rest of the bathroom, other areas, and even air in the house,'' the researchers write.

Participants found the smell of urine more unpleasant than the sight — an important distinction, since smell can be masked. The researchers suggest ''deodorizing pouches that mask the smell of urine in the bathroom'' are one promising way to reduce those feelings of disgust.

They also note that habits can change. Lute and her colleagues point out that public campaigns have been successful in getting people to pick up after their dogs. What was once unusual behavior is now the norm, in spite of its inherent ick factor.

On the other hand, they note, we usually deal with Fido's poop in public, in parks and other green spaces. In contrast, ''flushing is very much a private activity that is self-regulated'' and presumably less responsive to peer pressure. No one will shame you for flushing, because no one will know.

Still, it's a reminder that what we consider normal, polite behavior can shift in a relatively short time. Who knows? Another year or two of drought, and perhaps Californians will be mortified if they use a friend's bathroom and find a pristine toilet bowl.

source: http://theweek.com/articles/560943/stop-flushing-toilet

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Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - Some Bathroom Toilet Design Fails - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

Here are some bathroom design fails.









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Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - She Pours Coke Into Her Toilet -- You're Going To Freak Out When You See This - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

Coke can be just the thing you need on a hot day or when you need that caffeine fix in the midst of a long afternoon slump, but you can do so much more with the famous soda than just drink it. It turns out Coke can actually clean your toilet. Yes, it sounds crazy, but it absolutely works!

Due to its acidic nature, Coca-Cola can be used to clean toilets, cook a steak, and evenmake an emergency oil lamp! So if your toilet has rings and lime scale stains, but you've got no cleaning gear on hand, you can grab a can of Coke out of the fridge to make your porcelain throne sparkle.

Cleaning the toilet is one of the most dreaded household tasks. There's nothing glamorous about it, but if you use Coke, it'll turn the messy chore into a simple task. Plus, you won't have to deal with all those chemical fumes either. In fact, if you don't use all of it, you can have yourself a drink!

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely trying this next time we have some soda in the house. Plus, it's relatively cheap compared to most bathroom cleaners.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/littlethingscom/clean-your-toilet-with-co_b_7484372.html

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Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - Glow in the dark toilet seat is finally a reality: Meet ‘Potty Glow’- This Old Toilet 800-658-4521

After years of having his idea for a glow in the dark toilet seat scoffed at, Dave Reynolds of Lebanon, Tennessee is the one having the last laugh. 

“I kept telling this story over and over to people and they laughed,” Reynolds said during a recent TV interview, “and I said, ‘One day you’re not going to laugh at me. One day you’re going to go to the bathroom and think of me.’”

Mission accomplished.

As far as ideas go, a glow in the dark toilet seat isn’t actually that bad. Under regular lighting conditions, the toilet seat looks completely normal. Yet once darkness falls, the seat emits a soft glow in either green or blue, a feature which Reynolds believes is extremely beneficial for both children and the elderly. Specifically, Reynolds notes that parents have told him that their kids no longer need to wake them up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, all thanks to the warm, welcoming glow of his toilet seat.

“Not right now, but at 3 o’clock in the morning, that’s when it comes together,” Reynolds explains. “When you get up in the middle of the night, you forgot you installed it, and you turn the corner and you go, ‘whoa!'”

Given the annoying pain that can result from turning a light on in the middle of the night, Reynolds just might be onto something here. As it stands now, he’s already shipping about 20 toilet seats a day.

As for the quality of the product itself, Reynolds claims that the glow is the same “that’s used by the U.S. military and NASA.” Lastly, Reynolds boasts that the seats will glow for about 15-20 years.

source; http://bgr.com/2015/05/23/glow-in-the-dark-toilet-seat-potty-glow/

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