Poo tubes

[ValentinesStuff]

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/ben-walter-ethics-waste-conversation-about-poo-tubes/105476426

 

Umm OK. Wouldn't a diaper work?

[DailyDi]

Be less of a hassle than carrying around a PVC pipe full of poop.

[zzyzx]

9 hours ago, ValentinesStuff said:

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/ben-walter-ethics-waste-conversation-about-poo-tubes/105476426

 

Umm OK. Wouldn't a diaper work?

@ValentinesStuff: For what this is for, it is potentially more weight.  Probably should have @oznl comment since this is from Austrailia.  

For my area, on one of the local mountains, when above a certain elevation, you have to carry your personal waste of this type off the mountain.  They have red bags for poop, and a 55 gal drum at the ranger station (that collects the entrance fee) where the bags can get dropped off.  I haven't gone that high on the mountain to use this system.  

Waste disposal from the lower elevation camp pit toilets (outhouse not always present) is also one that gets comments about what is needed to keep the system up for the amount of visitors to this section of the outdoors.  It is a real issue.  And diapers would just add more to the issue.

[oznl]

1 hour ago, zzyzx said:

@ValentinesStuff: For what this is for, it is potentially more weight.  Probably should have @oznl comment since this is from Austrailia.  

Ah, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation strikes again!  Our looney-left taxpayer-funded sheltered workshop of a national broadcaster dedicated towards lecturing and hectoring the general population (which it despises btw) with an endless diet of social-justice “human interest” stories generally only of interest to the few dozen Kombucha-sipping inner-urban socialist wannabes who still pay attention to it.

This article is typical of their output (which would be better placed in a PVC pipe) 🤣

It’s a nothing-story.

But I got distracted.

Australia is a technologically sophisticated and highly urbanised society but yeah, once you get off the beaten track, infrastructure is no longer a thing: something German backpackers seem to endlessly discover for themselves.

It takes around 6 days to hike the Overland track (mentioned in the article) so I’d expect loaded diapers to become a fairly significant problem pretty quickly and washing off in a creek or river would be fairly uncool for hikers downstream of you since that's probably the only drinking water available.

Plenty of solutions more practical than a PVC pipe though as even this rather pointless article intimates.

[ValentinesStuff]

Thanks @oznl I was confused about how far these people were hiking and why they would need such accommodations. So it's like a primitive short Appalachian Trail, which has a poop page 💩.

 https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/plan-and-prepare/hiking-basics/health/pooping-on-the-at/#:~:text=Privies with special instructions for,wet wipes%2C socks%2C etc.