Grey water disposal filter

[Peter Nicol]

Re:an advert seen in Camping and Caravanning Magazine May 2023.

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The essence is that you drain your grey water through a filter direct into the ground (not onto the ground). I'm not convinced, and would sites allow it? Anybody tried one?

 

[nickq]

Re:an advert seen in Camping and Caravanning Magazine May 2023.

Caravan Grey Water Disposal System | Mac Products

Mac Products bring you the Grey water disposal system that's easy to clean and with no need for a grey water container or caddy. find out more today.

www.greywaterdisposal.com

The essence is that you drain your grey water through a filter direct into the ground (not onto the ground). I'm not convinced, and would sites allow it? Anybody tried one?

I don't really understand it, their website is very lacking on any detail or decent images. Does the water drain into the ground through the tiny legs? How is it any different to popping a sieve into a funnel and jabbing that into the ground? At least that would be easier to clean the "filter". What happens if the ground is already reasonably saturated, I would imagine having a shower it would soon back up, unless it's just spraying it onto the ground.

 

[Phill D]

As far as I can see the filter is purely mechanical so takes out the bits and that’s all.
Fine if it’s going to a hedgerow but not sure sites will want the residue directly onto pitch.

 

[BusyBuilder]

We empty ours in hedge, it's doing very well

 

[donkey]

It's £29.99

Geoff

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[poppycamper]

Re:an advert seen in Camping and Caravanning Magazine May 2023.

Caravan Grey Water Disposal System | Mac Products

Mac Products bring you the Grey water disposal system that's easy to clean and with no need for a grey water container or caddy. find out more today.

www.greywaterdisposal.com

The essence is that you drain your grey water through a filter direct into the ground (not onto the ground). I'm not convinced, and would sites allow it? Anybody tried one?

Like nickq I would have to question your "into not onto" statement.?

 

[icantremember]

The old trick of a punctured carrier bag stuffed with grass cuttings would do just as well and no cost.

 

[Pearlthemoho]

Saw an old boy at the Malvern show last year had made one from grey plastic drain pipe. Worked a treat but you will still get someone having a moan about it.

 

[Lenny HB]

My vans got wheels & an engine I just drive to the dump point, far easier.

 

[2x2camper]

My vans got wheels & an engine I just drive to the dump point, far easier.

That's not easy on a cl where there isn't one.

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[Jimbohorlicks]

The old trick of a punctured carrier bag stuffed with grass cuttings would do just as well and no cost.

We have used that technique a few times and it seems to work OK.
I suppose it depends where your sited in a field, near the hedge rows is probably OK but not if your in the middle of a field .

 

[Lenny HB]

That's not easy on a cl where there isn't one.

Long hose to the hedge then.

 

[jockaneezer]

How would you use it on a paved pitch ?

 

[Pausim]

No filters required and environmentally better than combining it with black waste that then overflows and pollutes our rivers and beaches. Water is best soaked into the land where it can do some good.

 

[Derbyshire wanderer]

Thats an expensive magic bucket

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[Orion]

How would you use it on a paved pitch ?

Correct preparation before installation?

 

[poppycamper]

My vans got wheels & an engine I just drive to the dump point, far easier.

Dump point would need to be a "long" way off to get your engine up to operating temp to stop it getting gunked up... you dont after all want to idle it cold, or do you go for a drive and then to the dump

 

[Lenny HB]

Dump point would need to be a "long" way off to get your engine up to operating temp to stop it getting gunked up... you dont after all want to idle it cold, or do you go for a drive and then to the dump

Rarely stay more than one or two nights anywhere so dump in the way out or in. Also can do 6 days without needing to empty

 

[Peter Nicol]

Thanks for all the replies. I might be tempted to try the bag stuffed with grass or something similar.

 

[POH]

Rarely stay more than one or two nights anywhere so dump in the way out or in. Also can do 6 days without needing to empty

Phew stinky

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[Just smiffy]

Just drive around in the rain all the time….. it’s working for me at the moment….

 

[Peter Nicol]

Like nickq I would have to question your "into not onto" statement.?

Yes, that is an issue. Into the ground may be fine but onto the ground is not a good idea (dry, flat site, mid-summer). But, it does say into on the product's website.

 

[Guigsy]

I guess it also only works if you can get a watertight seal on your outlet?

Does it just sprinkle on the ground? Or is water flowing into the ground through those tiny legs?

My family returns to a site every year. It's only really set up for tents, so it doesn't have a dumping point for grey. I end up driving the van close to the toilet block and using a pipe to empty into a grate from the showers. Or making the long walk many times with a bucket.

 

[gpat]

The hedge is fine for shower waste in limited quantities. Not fine for washing up water. Food waste attracts rodents.

 

[Pausim]

I guess it also only works if you can get a watertight seal on your outlet?

Does it just sprinkle on the ground? Or is water flowing into the ground through those tiny legs?

My family returns to a site every year. It's only really set up for tents, so it doesn't have a dumping point for grey. I end up driving the van close to the toilet block and using a pipe to empty into a grate from the showers. Or making the long walk many times with a bucket.

No hedges?

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[PP Bear]

Just leave the tap open, pop on some Foreign plates and say ke, ke, me no understand Henglish, sokay

 

[Pausim]

The hedge is fine for shower waste in limited quantities. Not fine for washing up water. Food waste attracts rodents.

I have even been on a full C&CC site where they said please use the hedges. They often have to pay to have their waste tanks emptied. My grey waste has very little food debris in it, I clean it off before washing up. Used grey water is best recycled through the ground.

 

[Riverbankannie]

i use paper towel to collect debris from plates. I try to get as little as possible into grey waste. If there is a particularly mucky tin can to recycle or things like coffee grounds that are too wet to put into waste bin, they go in the toilet to the cassette.
If on site for a few days, a collapsible bucket is useful to either chuck in hedge or down drain depending on owner’s wishes.

 

[stevefoy]

I enquired with the Camping and Caravan club (who are advertising the device in the ads section) and they came back with not allowed on club sites but CS May find them acceptable.
I have not bothered about them, I asked the manufacturer if they were acceptable to the club sites to use and they never bothered replying.

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

The old trick of a punctured carrier bag stuffed with grass cuttings would do just as well and no cost.

Exactly what we do relative to location.

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