emptying a cassette down a toilet

GJH said:
Why would there only be a public toilet available on a camp site? Surely an Elsan point is required in order to qualify for a licence or exemption certificate isn't it? Even meet/THS sites have a suitable manhole at least.
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the most basic site I was ever on was one in Cornwall.. at Portscatho.. we used it many times during the 80s and early 90s..

Arthur the farmer who owned the land had just dug a trench with a JCB.. about 10 mts x 3mts deep..

after emptying you just threw some soil on top using the shovel provided.. there was no water.. it had to be collected form the public tap in the village.. IIRC it was about ten quid per week..

sadly when Arthur died the land was sold ... it is now a fully developed camping and caravan site .. we've never been back..

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scotjimland said:
the most basic site I was ever on was one in Cornwall.. at Portscatho.. we used it many times during the 80s and early 90s..

Arthur the farmer who owned the land had just dug a trench with a JCB.. about 10 mts x 3mts deep..

after emptying you just threw some soil on top using the shovel provided.. there was no water.. it had to be collected form the public tap in the village.. IIRC it was about ten quid per week..

sadly when Arthur died the land was sold ... it is now a fully developed camping and caravan site .. we've never been back..

Treloan Coastal Holidays

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...82d7c1d81!8m2!3d50.1754921!4d-4.9792361?hl=en


Arthur's old cottage..
still there https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.1...SXn9qtCbrUjg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1?hl=en
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A couple of years ago we went to a THS at Llangollen where there was a similar arrangement except that it was a "pond" at one end of the farm field into which one emptied the cassette. Strangely enough it didn't pong for some reason, even though there was obviously a mix of chemicals going into it. There was a fresh water tap at the other end of the field though.

Still an Elsan point rather than a public toilet though :D
 
GJH said:
Why would there only be a public toilet available on a camp site? Surely an Elsan point is required in order to qualify for a licence or exemption certificate isn't it? Even meet/THS sites have a suitable manhole at least.
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I think you and I have had different experiences concerning campsites, as regulations and practices can differ from one country to another as can enforcement of any regulations. It is also the case that the original question refers to being "on site", and not specifically a caravan park, which is what I assume you mean. The last site I was on had a hookup and a toilet and a nice view and nothing else.

Cambridge English Dictionary definition of a campsite is: a piece of land where people on holiday can camp, usually with toilets and places for washing.

I have definitely been in more than one caravan park where there was no useable dump point, although I can't remember what country it was in. Greece, Australia or New Zealand seem the most likely candidates.
 
Movinon said:
I think you and I have had different experiences concerning campsites, as regulations and practices can differ from one country to another as can enforcement of any regulations. It is also the case that the original question refers to being "on site", and not specifically a caravan park, which is what I assume you mean. The last site I was on had a hookup and a toilet and a nice view and nothing else.

Cambridge English Dictionary definition of a campsite is: a piece of land where people on holiday can camp, usually with toilets and places for washing.

I have definitely been in more than one caravan park where there was no useable dump point, although I can't remember what country it was in. Greece, Australia or New Zealand seem the most likely candidates.
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I was thinking only of the UK and of a site as somewhere organised, be it a permanent caravan site or a temporary (rally type) site. I think this is what the OP meant as it refers to "an actual waste point". Having said that, some sites might designate their toilet for use as the waste point - but that wouldn't be a public toilet in the sense of being available for the general public (which is what I thought you meant).
 
So long as you flush it clean, it all goes to the same place
and finally it helps your vegetables grow.

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Big Lad said:
They dumped 2 cassettes a day down (2 different vans - both friends), so could in theory of not been using any chemicals. The toilet being where it was situated would of had its own waste tank which would need emptying at some point. i did say, if everyone did that, the tank would be full in no time.

The site policy does state no emptying of cassettes in the normal toilets whatsoever.

It was disappointing to watch as both vans were obviously seasoned motorhomers looking at some of the kit they were using around the van.

other motorhomers / campers nearby, looked on in disbelief as they brazenly did it. I wouldnt of fancied using the toilet after that had been chucked down it.
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Why didn’t someone grass them up to the wardens, the wardens could at least have a quiet word and explain why they shouldn’t do it.
 
Walk to the toilet block, there's a perfectly good hedge right behind the motorhome! :eek:
 
You can't beat a good toilet thread, much better quality subject and very gentile abuse.
 
Big Lad said:
Can someone explain if it's normal practice for people to empty their waste down a normal toilet on site, when theres an actual waste point that could be used?

my impression was they couldnt be ar**d to walk or move their vans to the disposal area, so every morning dumped it in the normal toilet block.
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Why would they need to move their van? My cassette comes out I carry it to the waste point and empty it. I have emptied it down the toilet at home but never on a site. They only hold around 18 litres so even full will only weigh around 19/20 kgs.
Not exactly heavy.

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ctc said:
You can't beat a good toilet thread, much better quality subject and very gentile abuse.
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Now there is a debate going on Toilet thread or Grey waste vote now.

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Feltwell said:
A tip that I think I got from here was brewer's yeast tablets. I put 3 in the cassette during warm weather and 4 or 5 if it's cold - we do empty our cassette every day (2 adults & 3 kids mean I have to!). So easy to do, a big pot of tablets is only a few pounds on Ebay, the smell is more pleasant than the horrible blue chemical, it's environmentally better and it shouldn't matter if it ends up in a septic tank.

I seem to remember that an old farmer's trick to get a new septic tank going with bacteria was to chuck some dead rabbits in there!
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I thought they went in the cider to start it?
 
My son did a code brown when I took the cassette to the loo to empty. 🤮

A French lady admonished me once for putting my grey water down the wrong drain. She told me to use the chemique point. It was a toilet on top of a concrete block and three feet high. The waste master was too heavy to lift that high without a hernia. 😫

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In 2009, we were on a pitch on a campsite in a Moroccan oasis, which contained a toilet block just 10 metres from a crystal clear natural pool with large fish swimming in it. The spring feeding the pool was the revered Source of the Blue Messki thought by locals to have healing properties.
A German motorhomer walked up with his cassette and emptied it into the pool!

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Jim said:
You need to be careful dumping in public loos :)

Around 5am one morning I went with my full cassette to the Chichester cattle market toilets. I had a small rucksack that was used exclusively for carrying the toilet cassette, along with a bleach spray and paper towels to clean up if necessary. I saw that one of the 4 cubicles was occupied but couldn't hear anyone, so maybe it was locked and out of order.

I carefully and slowly emptied my full cassette, woosh, dollop, woooosh dollop, whooosh, spladoosh This woke a drunk scottish guy in the locked cubicle

"Jeeeeeesus Chriiiist are you awright pal?"
"Aye I'm fine mate, or I will be in a minute"

I left the loo giggling like a child.

A very similar thing happened to Pusser, (bless im) he's a better story teller that me. This is a scanned page from his book, Pussers progress.


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I remember the smurf story he told. I bought his book I will have find it and read it again. The man was a legend at story telling.
 
I don't even need to re-read the book, just thinking about the swinging couple and him being a voyeur brings tears to my eyes.
 
So how green and friendly are the toilet cleansing chemicals :Harpic Domestos etc that we continually pour down our domestic Loos ???
 
The re-re-birth of a good BOG thread.

Someone at Chester last week had dumped a cassette down one of the toilets next to the chem waste and blocked the thing 😨, probably as the waste tanks was pretty high up(large plastic tanks) and there was some "spillage" on the tops of them.:sick::sicker:

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martin2603 said:
So how green and friendly are the toilet cleansing chemicals :Harpic Domestos etc that we continually pour down our domestic Loos ???
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I’m more concerned about how green and friendly my Gruppenfuhrer’s detritus will be when I indulge in a little cassette emptying down our home toilet today. :sick:
 
RowleyBirkinQC said:
I’m more concerned about how green and friendly my Gruppenfuhrer’s detritus will be when I indulge in a little cassette emptying down our home toilet today. :sick:
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After a bit of searching around my garden I've found the sewage drain. I've bought a cover key so my cassette no longer has to go anywhere near my house. I even have a garden tap nearby for rinsing it out
 
If it's green its either radioactive or too much veg!!!
 
Fitted one of these when soil stack got broke in the Spring Gales.
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Seal the drips from bathroom and repaint old pipes and then no more jobbies in the house.
 
Emptying twice a day, why would you bother with chemicals. Might be nothing but pee in there, loads of assumptions being made.

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IRHP said:
Emptying twice a day, why would you bother with chemicals. Might be nothing but pee in there, loads of assumptions being made.
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Who would empty twice a day?
What do you do about number twos?
Our cassette can last 4 days and still smell sweet with Bio liquid
 

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