Today I'm revisiting a video I made called why I don't have a
composting toilet. Lately, I've been looking back at some of my
old videos in some cases, I think pretty differently now. So
over the next I don't know, probably a couple of months, I'm
going to revisit some of the videos I made early on and let
you know what's changed, like what has evolved both gear wise
and also in my mind. Let's go check out my poop closet.
That's the video I made last year. My biggest advancement
since then, I know where the lenses on the iPhone is now. So
I can actually look at you when I'm talking to you. This was the
second video I ever made. And it's part of the reason why I
started a channel because I really just had such a pet peeve
about people, like everybody in the skoolie world seem to be
spending 1000 bucks on these composting toilets. At least
they - I think they still are actually. And that drove me
crazy. It's a wonderful thing to have a composting toilet. If
you're composting. Most people traveling around the country in
a school bus are not composting, it's kind of overkill if you're
not. I had more than one person Tell me, "Well, you know, I bag
up my poop, I put it in the trash, the trash gets taken to
the landfill. So that's basically composting, right?" If
you think that, that I'm not trying to judge you, but if you
think that they're composting at the landfill, I would suggest
that you just stop by a landfill. See, because a land
fill is exactly that: it's a land fill, they're filling the
land, they're taking a big hole and filling it with stuff,
including your poop. And composting is a whole other
thing. Composting involves taking organic material, in this
case, your poop, and during an aerobic process speeding up the
decay, to turn it into fertilizer that can be used in a
garden. So that sounds very noble and sustainable. And it
is. The composting toilets people use in their bus
conversions facilitate composting by starting the
process on your poop of becoming humanure. It is the - the stuff
that your poop turns into before it's composted, right. But if
you're not taking that humanure and putting it in a composting
pile for it to be broken down further, then basically, you
know, if you're throwing it away, then basically you're just
throwing away a sack of poop, which is not good to use in the
garden, I would venture to say it's not really good to use
anywhere. It's a sack of poop. So if you're using $1,000 toilet
to produce a sack of poop, if it makes you happy, great. Now
there is one way your composting toilet is actually helping the
environment. And that is that it's not using water. And that's
huge because water is the most compromised resource in our
world. Right? So it's not using water, and that's terrific. But
you don't have to spend 1000 bucks to get that. Here's what I
was pooping in when I made that first video. It is a Thetford
porta potty. Shortly after I made the video - Now, mind you,
I didn't have 50 subs at the time - But shortly after I made
that video, I got contacted by Thetford, a woman from Thetford.
She said they wanted to use it in all of their social media.
But the problem was that in it, I was using these little Camco
drop ins that you put in, like to deodorize. So she said, Gosh,
if you could substitute, if you could put Thetford in there,
then we'd be good.She offered to pay me to do this. Okay, she was
paying me in toilet chemicals. But hey, I need toilet
chemicals. And nobody else was paying me anything. So I took
it, you know? So I sliced out Camco. And I delivered the video
to her and she was happy and they used it in their social
media, but I didn't get a thank you. And I did not get any
toilet chemical payoff. I didn't get anything. So I reached out
to this woman on Facebook from the same profile she contacted
me from, and said, "Hey, where are my chemicals?" And at first
she mistook me for someone who was trying to sell her something
and she was completely rude to me. But then, you know, when I
reminded her who I was, she said, "This is my PERSONAL
Facebook." So I sent a message on their Facebook page and I
asked them where the hell the chemicals were. And the person
that responded to me took my address and they sent me
nothing. Never got anything. So today I have a whopping 2600
subscribers to not recommend Thetford to. If you're looking
for a porta potty Camco makes a few great ones. They were mean
to me. Or disrespectful, let's just say, disrespectful of the
time and energy that I put in to their free advertising.
Basically, the Porta Potty is fine, it does use some water,
but it uses so much less than a flush toilet, you're
like dumping it in a flush toilets or you're, you bring a
canister part into the restroom, you just dump it, and then you
flush it. So I'm flushing the toilet like once every five days
maybe, as opposed to every day. I also have a pee jar. And I
dumped it at the same time. And the reason you do that,
typically is because when you mix pee and poo together, you
get a stink. If you don't mix them, then you're fine. And I
was fine. That's completely fine. And then - I was fine
until one day, I walked into a flying J truck stop and found
that there was a line for the ladies room. And I had to wait
in line to get up to my place and I went in the stall to dump
and when I did, did my thing - I got real embarrassed. I had to
do little bits, glub glub glub, because you could hear it
everywhere, it was echoing and when I came out I could see on
people's faces. Nobody wanted to use the stall after me. You
know. So that was the first time I thought this is maybe a little
bit gross. So I changed it up. No, I did not get a composting
toilet, though. What I do have I have seen described by people as
a DIY composting toilet. It's not. Guys - composting toilets
create compost, okay? If you had one in your house, you'd have a
giant pit under it. You can't do that in the bus. How long do you
think you have to keep your poop to make it into compost? It's
humanure if it's even that. It's probably just poop. Here's what
I have now. It's the classic bucket toilet. The staple of
vehicle dwellers ever since, as long as there have been vehicles
and people who dwell in them. I guess you can call it whatever
you want. But it's not a comp sting toilet, not a DIY comp
sting toilet, nothing like it. ut it is a dry toilet. Fiv
gallon bucket, toilet seat rom the Walmart camping depar
ment that clips onto the rim of the bucket - they make it sp
cifically for the purpose. A co ple plastic trash bags, I dou
le bag because I want to be ropping any poop anywhere. Some
ort of absorbent medium, I usually use wood pellets. I us
ally get them at Lowe's becaus it's four bucks for 20 pounds
of them. Today I have cedar kitt litter, which I got at the gro
ery store and it smells aweso e. I also have a funnel and a ju
. I'll put some more pecifics in the description. See
I end up with a sack of poop, oo, the difference is mine cost
me about 30 bucks. Actually Camco has a kit on Amazon it's a
bucket with a seat and some bags for 22 bucks. I'll put that
in the description below. An it's Camco my new favorite com
any. I don't have to wait in li e for the ladies room. I ca go
o the dumpster out back and ju t drop my poop in. Though I am -
I try to really be considerate with where I put that poop bag,
ike I don't - it's not illegal t throw it away in a trash barre
. But think about how many p ople like in the park are dipp
ng their hands into trash ba rels to look for cans to turn i
, especially now where people are struggling for money ri
ht? I don't want some poor per on reaching in to look for can
o be holding on to a poop bag. o I try not to throw it in pla
e. Okay, Skoolie Scouts, I h pe you enjoyed how I poop tod
y. I happen to like it. But if ou want to see how I used to
oop watch this one. I got to b honest, the first video i
funnier. So if you want to jus have a little