Hello Permies,
While waiting for our bathroom/toilet room to get to the top of our priorities list in the renovation, we're using a
pee bucket and a camper toilet.
The portable wc is for camping cars, with associated (very) chemical blue liquid.
We did the blue liquid thing for one month last summer, and despite the promises on the flacon, it did get smelly as the contents of the potty sat for longer than fivr-six days.
Since I'm a critters&growies girl I came up with an eco friendly liquid.
I'd like to share our 'porta potty tea'-recipe with you, it's quite simple.
You can play with the proportions of ingredients; more nettles=greener liquid, more ivy=more brown liquid.
1 part
nettles (accelerates composting), stems and leaves
1 part English ivy (soapy, cleaner), stems and leaves
optional; some fragrant stuff from your garden - I use mint.
Put the ingredients in a big pot, cover with
water and bring to boil.
Simmer for at least 1/2 an hour.
Let cool in the pot, the point is to extract as much of the composting & soapy stuff from the plants as possible.
The next step is quite important; filter the liquid in order to avoid the pump of the porta potty clogging from the tiny seeds of
nettles or other particles.
I use a sieve for filtering out the plant material, and a very fine sieve when pouring the liquid thorugh a funnel and into the porta potty.
Then I dilute the 'tea' with water, about 1:1, it's all very "-ish".
We use the liquid for flushing after every
poop session. No smell - except mint! - in the potty.
When it's time to empty the porta potty, it goes into a deep hole in the ground (covered with an old sheet of metal roofing). The contents composts very fast thanks to the nettles component, so it's not even necessary to cover the contents with a layer of soil, just the sheet of roofing.
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