Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• survirtual@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I shit just fine in CO with holes. Year after year I even watched some of my shit spots grow beautiful flowers.

  You don’t own Colorado and it was there long before you. It will be there long after you. Remote forests handle our shit just fine. Dig deep enough and away from the trail or water, near some plants, and they will gobble it up no problem. The number of human hikers in remote places is minuscule.

  A bit wild to demand people shit in synthetic plastic bags they have to purchase and dump them in a landfill. “Leave no trace – except the giant plastic waste sites scarring the landscape everywhere”

  Now if you’re talking park trails and other heavily populated places? That’s different. It also isn’t “Colorado” it is a specific sub-specification.

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I call them poop bags

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I used to use a bread bag but I’m not supposed to put those in the vault toilets. The WAG bag is supposedly compostable and has a gel in it so your waste doesn’t get in your pack. They are definitely cool.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I use the WAG bags but WAG doesn’t sound cool. “Poop bag” or “shit bag” sounds much better

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      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And everyone needs a good set of heel rocks.

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• ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I appreciate the suggestion. I’m not in Colorado but the heat waves we’ve been getting in Washington have the made the normally soft soil into something that cannot be dug into without some serious tools. My ultralight trowel cannot do a thing to this stuff.

  Keeping a couple of these bags in my kit is a great idea.

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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Have the animals been informed of this ?

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you having a stroke?

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well since you don’t seem to understand, I would challenge you to take a healthy human shit in one hand and a healthy carnivore shit in the other hand. I guess you’re going to need to use your mouth for a herbivore shit but just compare the three.

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• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is that because of the high altitude?

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s very dry in most of the state so getting composting moving along can take some effort

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    • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If it is very dry, doesn’t that also mean it is less likely to spread/leak into the aquifer?

      E.g. dried cow-manure seems to be fine for the environment to handle.

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      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s because herbivore shit is usually fine. Like you and I could have a shit-fight with horse poop and not get sick. Please don’t, and especially please don’t have a shit-fight with omnivore or even many carnivore shits.

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