Bog in a bag

[mountainm]

there are plenty of alternatives
http://tinyurl.com/yjkd4t2

Beat you to that one...

 

[mrcharly]

It's hardly a new idea - chandlers have been selling them for over a decade, for use on small boats that aren't fitted with a sea toilet. You could make the bags from corn starch plastic - it's waterproof, but eventually breaks down completely.

 

[Elines]

Holy $hit!

Sorry, just had to be said

Don't you mean :

Holey $hit

 

[treefrog]

Or can be used for some kind of Casino Royale type interrogation. :yikes:

 

[bilmo-p5]

Stool stool!

 

[outdoorpaddy]

Just an additional thought - you coud have a cr*p and whittle at the same time

Tried that one before, it's all fun and games until you cut your finger badly and then you are almost literally in the sh*t! lol

outdoorpaddy

 

[spandit]

We've got a porta-potty for our little girl that uses special bags with pads in so don't know how she got a patent for it.

 

[Elines]

Yikes! This is important stuff. The most important bit being the 'C' in PVC.

The simplest way to tell is usually to look at it. You'll very often find it's written on it. The recycling symbol (a sort of curvy-pointed triangle made from arrows) on most plastic things thesedays tells you without much doubt.

http://www.earthodyssey.com/symbols.html

Polythene is made from ethylene gas (which usually comes from oil fractionation). It is available in several forms which differ primarily, but not by much, in density. All are less dense than water so they float. PVC is around 30% to 40% denser than water so it sinks, obviously for example unless it's a football.

Polythene is used primarily for packaging, things like freezer bags, carrier bags and bin liners. It's also used for pipes and electrical insulation in things like your TV aerial cable. It's 'floppier' than PVC so you can tell the difference by feel when you're used to it. When we talk about a "poly bag" it's usually polythene. Dyneema is polythene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene

Thanks (as always) for the technical stuff Ged.

So if someone wanted to adapt an existing tripod stool or camp chair to be a commode then they should design it to use Polythene bags, being bags which:

• won't leak (in contrast to even heavy duty paper ones)
• float
• may have writing on them - in particular the curvy triangle arrow thing
• are a bit floppy
• are what most people would understand to be a 'poly' bag - such as are supplied by (some) supermarkets or used to store food or rubbish
• can be burnt in the same way as paper bags

Incidentally in his book - When all hell breaks loose - Cody Lundin suggests that for a situation where there is no water for flushing a toilet then you can ..............

• tape a heavy duty plastic (polythene) bag (or at least two) in the bowl
• when it is a max of two thirds full, add some wood ashes or quicklime and
• put it in a pre-prepared slit trench for the duration

I suppose this just goes to show there is nothing new.

 

[Imagedude]

I've got things that allow me to take a dump (without people noticing) in public, they're called trousers.

 

[Humpback]

Happy and regular! user for 4 years of a cardboard s**tbox as demonstrated in my avtar.
http://tinyurl.com/yjkd4t2

Makes the whole business simple!

 

[Teepee]

@ Bilmo- Stool stool; Haha.

Theres no way one of my behemoths would fit through that without leaving a 'buttercurl'.

 

[Robbi]

a slight mod and this would be perfect

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...ve=22278&creativeASIN=B005DZ4YPY&linkCode=asm

 

[shortymcsteve]

Karl Pilkington did this already on An Idiot Abroad, haha.