Clearwaste’s Go Anywhere Portable Toilet- A Review
When Kristin Bell insisted we use a Go Anywhere Portable Toilet for the Indian River Lagoon Paddle Adventure I did not like the idea. New stuff to get. More money to spend. One more thing to carry. Back in the “old days” we always used to shit in the woods.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
The Go Anywhere Portable Toilet received rave reviews from everyone who used it on the Adventure, this reporter included. Men liked it as much as women did.
The Portable Toilet when folded up is the size of a large briefcase and weighs seven pounds. It may be large for a kayaker to carry. Since two of us carried the toilet in a 17 foot Old Town Penobscot canoe, the size and weight was a very minor issue.
We would set the toilet up in a private area. A stick was inserted into the ground along the approach. When going to use the toilet the user would put their hat on the stick, which signaled another potential user, “Occupied.” This system worked well.
We kept a trowel by the toilet so the user could sprinkle some soil over the waste. This way we got multiple uses from the poop bags.
As someone who had to tie the poop bags up and dispose of them a number of times I would say this was the worst part about using the Go Anywhere Portable Toilet. Americans are used to just flushing our poop. We’re not used to and don’t want to be intimate with it. You actually get over this pretty quickly, especially when you realize how quickly 10 people would make a mess of that small island you’re camped on.
We gave talks at a number of environmental centers along the route of our paddle. A question that came up from our audiences a number of times was, “Where do you go to the bathroom?” It was great to be able to answer, “We have a portable toilet.” That translates to, “We’re concerned about the environment we’re travelling through and don’t want to leave a trail of human waste.” It was really comforting to us to be able to say that.
The Go Anywhere Portable Toilet is a well designed, well built, reasonably priced, convenient, and ecologically sound product, an important piece of equipment to carry on any kind of outdoor trip.
You can use the
Portable Toilet to fly cast, too.
It has this reporter’s highest recommendation.
John Kumiski
www.spottedtail.com
Hi John,
thanks for the kind words. It has been our pleasure at Cleanwaste to contribute in a small way to your adventure and we have followed all your updates closely. We’d like to offer any of your readers 10% their next order (just use code IRL10 and order directly from me at juliane@cleanwaste.com).
Just a tip for using the toilet with multiple people. You can of course use some soil sprinkled over the poop in the bag, but you could also use some extra poo powder to sprinkle on between uses. This assures proper gelling and deodorizing of all the waste with multiple users and would make it slightly less offensive to your nose to tie up the bags after use 🙂
Here’s to a great 2014! We’re looking forward to what IRL paddle adventure will come up with in the new year 🙂
where do we get the extra poo powder?
You can order the poo powder directly from us (www.cleanwaste.com or email me at juliane@cleanwaste.com) and it comes in a 55 or a 120 scoop container. The small one goes for $33.95 and the big one for $68.95 (remember using IRL10 for your 10% discount when you contact me directly). The powder has three main ingredients, a gelling agent, a deodorizing agent, and a decay catalyst. The gelling agent was developed by NASA and is similar to the stuff companies use in baby diapers for example. Let me know if you have more questions and I’m happy to help!