Trash Disposal

[Freelander]

How does everyone dispose of trash when boon docking??

I use a 13 gallon can with bags and I am looking for ideas on where I can put my trash without having problems.

 

[WanderingRose]

I use 3 gallon, black trash bags, which can go easily and relatively unobtrusively into a garbage can almost anywhere.

You can buy them at WalMart, near the small trash cans and step-cans.

 

[Freelander]

I would fill a 3 gallon bag very quickly. I use a regular kitchen trash can. I have dogs and the pee pads will fill a small can to fast.

 

[Ripper238]

I usually use small plastic bags and put them in my water tight bear bag. The bear bag is nice since I can pack it into anything rather than having a fixed can size. Plus its virtually indestructible and can come in any size you need.

Usually can find a garbage can before they add up too much.

 

[abnorm]

We use a large folding trash can to collect a weeks worth of the kitchen bags.......

then to a TRANSFER Station (Usually a FEE based disposal)

 

[Freelander]

What I am asking is do you find a Gas Station or some place to drop off your trash??

I will hitting the road again very soon, and where Im at is no problem but on the road it may be.

 

[Ripper238]

What I am asking is do you find a Gas Station or some place to drop off your trash??

I will hitting the road again very soon, and where Im at is no problem but on the road it may be.

I utilize gas stations I am a patron of and trash dumpsters in the parks I stay at. Sometimes ill use town park garbage cans. I try not to compile too much trash so I can get rid of it anywhere with no "dumping" hassle.

 

[bullfrog]

Do a day visit to a National Park (large amounts) when not doing daily visits for fuel (small amounts) as I am old and have a lifetime pass.

 

[user 423]

Rest areas,truck stops, parks, Walmarts, dumpsters behind Cracker Barrels.

Anything that can attract mice I put in small bags and toss them in a 5 gall. bucket with Gamma lid until I get into town.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

How does everyone dispose of trash when boon docking??
I use a 13 gallon can with bags and I am looking for ideas on where I can put my trash without having problems.

I usually generate about a gallon (bread bag) of garbage a week, so unobtrusive disposal is not a problem.

For larger quantities: campground and picnic area dumpsters, rest stops with large garbage containers, some dump stations; any public trash disposal container that is large enough.

I never use a private business dumpster without asking first (usually a gas stations), although I do put my small quantities in the cans by the pump.

 

[John in Montreal]

I throw all my trash, poop and piss jugs in whatever dumpster.

 

[vanbrat]

We/I try to keep the van as trash free as we can. That means we dump whatever, whenever we stop. Be it for gas bathroom or lunch that way it doesn't build up. If we are stopped at a campground there are usually dumpsters. If not to be careful of not attracting pesty critters we put whatever in a plastic bag in a bucket with a lid. But we don't stay in one place for long so don't know what happens if someone is someplace without regular dumpster service.

 

[abnorm]

I throw all my trash, poop and piss jugs in whatever dumpster.

Liquids ?......Now that's just WRONG !

 

[John in Montreal]

Liquids ?......Now that's just WRONG !

I use the empty water bottles so they're sealed up nice and tight, it's all good.

 

[frater secessus]

RVwiki stub article on trash management for boondockers.

 

[AmargosaWayne]

One utility of carrying a dual sport motorcycle is daily trash runs to a nearby public facility with trash receptacles, also laundry and grocery shopping.

In the Mammoth Lakes area this involves a fun ride on forest roads to the Hot Creek Geothermal site, or a walk to the Crestview Rest Area on US-395. Both have bear proof containers.

When in Tonopah, NV I ride cross country on OHV roads from US-95 BLM to the rest area on US-6 and NV-376.

Up on US-50 there is a rest area at US-50 and NV-376.

When shopping or getting fuel, I use the public trash cans.

 

[WanderingRose]

I use the empty water bottles so they're sealed up nice and tight, it's all good.

Much of our trash goes thru a compactor, which could cause your bottles of urine to burst.

 

[John in Montreal]

Much of our trash goes thru a compactor, which could cause your bottles of urine to burst.

If you leave a little head and squeeze the air out that won't happen. Besides it's not like it matters. People throw dog crap and baby diapers in the trash.

 

[abnorm]

It's Solid Waste Disposal !

 

[Ravella and X]

Freelander, IMO, your 13 gallon bags limit your choices (ethically and practically). You could do like abnorm and take your accumulated trash to the nearest transfer station/dump, or you could use the little bags, which fit into gas station and grocery store trash cans (only one or two bags at a go, please).

There are loads of ways to thoughtfully reduce your waste, which would do both you and the planet good. Two ways that come to the front here are purchasing what items you can in bulk, and other items in the most minimal packaging available, and eliminating or greatly reducing your pets’ use of puddle pads by getting them on a frequent wee outside schedule. Oh, a third way- it doesn’t help the planet, but it does reduce your trash- remove all excess packaging at the store parking lot before you bring items into your rig. Drop the excess right into the parking lot trash cans.

I’m not as good at this as Spaceman Spiff (hella respect!). My normal trash output is one or two 4 gallon trash bags per week.