Im looking for ways to manage the smell and mess of a bucket toilet when camping. I dont have a composting toilet or anything like that. Do i use sawdust/lime??

Ag Lime will help keep odors down, make sure to set t up DOWN WIND!!! LOL

I take a shovel out behind a tree.

Dig a hole and dump bucket after each use. Shovel a little dirt in hole after each dump.

Ground is awful hard here this time of year for that.

Youtube is your friend.

Start with a little water in bucket so nothing sticks then dump and bury after each use

I use sawdust (or turnings/shavings). Bottom line is that poop stinks, and nothing will change that. Keep it away from places where you spend time. Empty it often if you can't get it far enough away.

Dry composting toilets I have seen all use peat moss to catch the solids. Use it, give it a shake. Lasts weeks. Liquids need to go somewhere else. Dry composting toilets have a catch jug for that. One you dump after each use.

Line the bucket with 2 - 13 gal. Drawstring bags . Go- then take out Bag or bags after each use.
Glade or febreeze cinnamon-apple spray. Works in a deer shack

Then where do you put the bag?

Clothes pin

saw dust or peat moss

bucket with toilet seat and lid I use a Luggable Loo

farm and fleet sells them or you can order the lid from amazon
https://www.amazon.com/72-HRS-Emerg...&hvtargid=pla-571221766264&psc=1

I think Cabelas has them also ,search on line they are quite common

anything will work if it gives you a reasonably decent seal

2 buckets 1 with saw dust , the other you start with a layer of saw dust 2-3 inches , you want something like a 28oz tin can to scoop your saw dust from your saw dust bucket to the toilet bucket.

every time you go , you lift the lid , doo your doody , or #1 then cover you excrement's with saw dust or peat , actually dirt or mulched leaves work also , carbon it locks in the odor , close the lid to contain the little that might get out.
snap a tight lid on when you transport , put in compost pile at home when you return
it needs a hot pile or a year wait to use on your garden
you could make a separate pile for excrement only of course with a carbon matter cover after dumping each time.

wash out the bucket with soap and water , a toilet brush you leave by the compost can be handy, flip it over let it dry and repeat as needed

if you want all the specifics the Humanure handbook has the science and more details it is printed in a pile of languages for use world wide.

Side note. Door frame of pickup truck makes a great loo. Just open the door and sit in the V. Radio, cup holder, napkins all generally within reach. Comfortable with a degree of privacy. Passenger side works best…unless you have a passenger. But that’s…er uh, on them. This has been a public service announcement.

In the weekly trash. In the burning barrel. Use paper bags and bury it.

* put them on the neighbors step. Add L.fluid light bag. Knock loudly and run.

Sometimes you have to be creative...

Yup, hot water. The steam does wonders!

To the air quality

years ago when I was doing some plumbing I took the advice of 5 gallon pail , 3 inches of water and a generous glug glug glug of pine-sol this is basically a recipe for porta Jon fluid diy version keep a lid on it when not in use.

when you have all your plumbing back together you dump your bucket down the toilet

it definitely works but plopping into liquid , no thanks count me out on splash back

so I would pass on anything that involves water in the bucket

Do a Google search for "groover management rafting" and you can read yourself silly. Most popular rafting rivers have requirements to pack out all human waste. Rafters have it down to a science. We always just have a bag of laundry detergent next to the groover and put a scoop on top when your done. If you want some more entertainment look up SCAT machine which is the dump facility at the take out

Cat litter works pretty good.

Build yourself a catapult and lob it into someone else's campsite.

Moosetrot

Great thread, everyone!

Poo Powder
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I just treat them like you would a dirty diaper. Dump next to the trash can at any place that has a trash can. Throw it on the beach anywhere people swim. One of my favorites ... Toss it out car window anywhere but by your camp or in your own driveway. There is always leaving it on door step of someone you don't like. Harder to do now with all door cams.

Mac

I have never tried it but they make kitty litter for a similar task.
just

Being honest I put kitty litter or floor dry in the over night bucket we use when camped. We bag and like dirty diaper goes in different bucket with lid. That bucket goes somewhere it can be properly dumped.

Mac

Imodium

This.

Brown buckets work best. Out of sight out of mind

Ok, why not just cut the bottom out of the bucket and stick it over a hole? Portable outhouse...

Water in the bucket, like yes sir mentioned. Dump after each use, maybe a squirt of a smell good cleaner in the bucket after every couple uses.

Or just cut the bottom outta the bucket and move the bucket around wisely, lol.

Oil.
Cooking/automotive.
It floats on top. Seals of the smell.

It Depends.

You can get the deodorizing liquid used in porto potties, or camper holding systems, just a splash.... in a few inches of water...good for a few days if necessary.

No matter what you do make sure you use a blue bucket

Past 20 yrs. have used peat moss via TSC. Also add occasional lime. Barrel composter does make very good black additive to soils. Or those rectum jobs that insist on riding my rear bumper a bag of fresh tossed rearward makes them Back Off....... Tut

You guys are full of shite ! lol

Oh no you didn't just....yep, you did. You went there.

At the deer camp, I use pine shaving s , put bag in the wood stove after several uses. I pee in a juice jug, so not much moisture. Good fire starter. old 243

Under the seat of your buddies truck. You should already know this.

when we went ice fishing to Minnesota they had a bucket with bags , just take a bags outside and they froze , we use the same concept went we went hunting we put the small bag in a big one and last night of the hunt we got a real good fire going and burn all the waste

At my camp I have an unheated outhouse but a heated shower shed. We use the bucket toilet in there, it's heated after all. Tractor Supply here sell pelletized animal bedding. It's super absorbant and has a fresh hay smell. A big handful in the bucket, do your business, liquid and solid. When done another handfull on top, no smell or liquid left. I dig a couple post holes in the fall, lay a board on top and that's where I dump the bucket in the winter. In warm months we just use the two holer...

We did this for years when we had play land before mother sold it. I dug a hole a deep as I could get it and put a sheet of good plywood over the hole with a hole to let the poop fall through. I had a camp toilet which I attached a 6 gallon bucket with the bottom cut out. It worked great and it never filled up enough to worry about re-digging a new one. The only problem was that my niece Anne never could remember to put the paper back in the coffee can so the paper was always wet. Eventually I stopped putting TP out and kept a roll in the truck.

it is call context , lots of reasons to have a bucket toilet.

if your reason is because you have your own land and can dig a hole and put the bucket over it works well

works less well when your in a state park sites all in easy view of each other.

or your in need of a way to go on a job site in the back of your service van - for that we did use trash bags , always had buckets and trash bags in the truck and a dumpster at the shop.

I suppose it could work in the shanty but , you are fishing in that water so take it of the lake

could be your doing a plumbing project and the toilet is not going to be attached to the floor for a few hours or a day.

lots of reasons