[Tagging] Reviving "pitlatrine" proposal from 2011

[Brian Wolford]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:06 AM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>wrote:

> Well, you also have the old-style outhouse, where you have a small
> building, including a seat, located above a pit which receives the waste.
> The temporary latrines used at construction sites are much the same, except
> that the "pit" is the bottom portion of the latrine, and the whole thing is
> hauled away to be emptied. I have seen parks where these "temporary"
> portable latrines are in year-round use, to spare the expense of having to
> install water supply pipes and sewers.
>

"Port-a-Potties" would be "chemical" under this scheme. I think the big
difference between "pit" and "bucket" is that a pit would be stationary
where the container that receives the waste for bucket is removed and
dumped somewhere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_toilet

Chemical toilets are often permanent features in displaced-person camps
(speaking for Haiti), as well.
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