Dingfelder
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Spaceman Spiff said:When was the last time you saw garbage from a can or dumpster spread around?
All the campsites I have been to have bearproof (or at least rodent proof) cans and dumpsters that no big or small animal is going to be able to 'spread it around'. In town it is the residential cans that get dumped over and spread, with dirty diapers et.al. The commercial garbage cans are usually emptied every 8 hours into a dumpster that no small animal is going to tip, and there is enough activity around to scare away animals.
This is such a small probability event that it is not worth stressing over. And the ideal solution is not workable: everyone having enough acreage so nature can take care of the waste without pollution.
Pit toilet disposal works for cassette toilets but not for buckets or separating toilets. And don't put contents from 'composting' toilets down a flush toilet. The drying agent that you mix with the poop will swell and plug the works somewhere down the sewer line.
Our society has bigger worries than if 0.0001% of our poop is not going through the proper sewage treatment.
Left it all in, in the quote, because I couldn't agree more.
In nine-plus years living in semi-rural Oregon, where we have large numbers of deer, coyotes, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, possums, raccoons, rats, hawks, vultures, every kind of bird, the occasional cougar and bear, cows, goats, sheep, deer, llamas, chickens, guinea hens, geese, horses, snakes, and whatever you could ever think of to startle you in the garden, out on your deck, or on a walk in the woods, I've seen our garbage, always full of food and gardening scraps and daily bags of dog poop from our four dogs, overturned exactly once.
This is not a big or realistic problem.
Meantime, we are all drinking from wells. And our sewage flows out through the ground. The same ground all those animals are pooping on 24/7. Natural and domestic. Plus imported/artificial fertilizers.
We seem to be fine. Soil and water testing defines us as fine too.
Let's not let our worst-case scenarios substitute in as our definition of the norm.