How should sewage and solid waste be disposed of under wilderness camping conditions?

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Answer 1

ask any animal.

their bodily wastes are not much different to ours.

the best way really is to dig a small hole and close it after

assuming we are only talking about organic waste

the p**p turns to compost ,and does not leave a mark of your visit.Like a cat does.

Answer 2

POO IN A HOLE THEN COVER IT UP

Answer 3

You said "wilderness" so that means situations like low-impact backpacking and such.

Human waste must be buried.  Use readily degradeable TP.  If you're a backpacker that means you're carrying a little plastic garden trowel.

Plastic, foil, paper, glass, metal cans, and other trash that is not readily degradeable must be carried out.

Low-impact camping says we don't build campfires.  Open burning sterilizes the ground under a fire ring and defaces stones, etc. by blackening them.  However, if you have access to an existing fire pit then you can dispose of burnable waste (paper and grease) in the fire provided that it's completely burned so that it doesn't invite an animal to eat the ash and charcoal.

If you're car camping or RV camping, then haul out everything you hauled in.

Answer 4

If you take a port-a-potty with you, you can store it until you are ready to leave, then once in the city or town there are places you can empty them or even empty it in the toilet if it is a small one.   I would really look into getting some type of a port-a-potty.

Answer 5

'Leave No Trace' camping and off roading means just that-leave no trace that you were ever there!

ANYTHING you carry in-you carry out.

Bodily wastes...okay, wimps, 'poo & peepee' you dig a small hole by digging up a 'circle' in one piece, set it aside.

Make sure your hole is NOT uphill from drinking water, in a path, or where someone might pitch a tent...get off in the woods, behind some trees...after you have used the hole, and use BIODEGRADABLE paper, push the 'cap' you dug up in one piece back on the hole and stomp it down...leaving the slightest 'trace' that you were there.

Any 'personal hygiene products'...for you ladies...you should have wrapped in paper and put into the ziplock bags you brought just for that purpose, right?

Because ANY animal is going to be digging up that pad because they smell the blood...and drag it all over the place and probably leave it right in the trail when they figure out it isn't food.

Wilderness camping would be backpacking...not using motorized vehicles, so the chances of carrying in any form of 'port a potty' would be pretty slim unless you hired a gang of sherpas to haul your gear!

Answer 6

Assuming you mean actual wilderness and not someplace where there are developed camp sites, dig a p**p hole and cover it up when you're done.  Pack out any and all non-biological trash.  Note the non-biological rather than non-biodegradable term.  Everything is biodegradable, eventually.  That doesn't mean it's OK to scatter it around waiting for it to break down.  If it's edible or a food scrap, then you can just bury it or scatter it for nature to dispose of.  If it's not, pack it out with you.

Answer 7

Does a bear..........?

At some point, in the numbers in which people actually go camping, people are part of the animal kingdom.    They don't have port-o-potties for the bears, deer, geese, etc....

Do as they do.