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Encyclopedia > Chemical toilet

A chemical toilet is a toilet using chemicals to disinfect the waste instead of simply storing it in a hole, or piping it away to a sewage treatment plant. These toilets are most commonly found on airplanes and trains, identified with a blue-colored dye in the bowl water. (In the United States this blue liquid formula is generally called "Anotec".) An even simpler chemical toilet consists of a seat on a container or bucket of water, with a solution of chemicals used to disinfect and deodorize. These are sometimes found on inter-city buses or in homes where indoor plumbing is not available. Flush toilet. ...


Disinfection is generally carried out by mixing formaldehyde or similar chemicals with the toilet water when flushed. The chemical compound formaldehyde (also known as methanal) is a gas with a pungent smell. ...


Chemical toilets are often used on construction sites and at outdoor gatherings such as music festivals, and in caravans. Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper In project architecture and civil engineering, construction is the building or assembly of any infrastructure. ... A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as; musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. ... A travel trailer or caravan is a small trailer in which people can live and travel simultaneously. ...


Since formaldehyde is very irritating to the skin, nose, and throat, it is being replaced by other proprietary blends such as glutaraldehyde and quaternary ammonium compounds, with non-staining dyes and nature-identical perfume oils.

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Chemical toilet - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (202 words)
A chemical toilet is a toilet using chemicals to disinfect the waste instead of simply storing it in a hole, or piping it away to a sewage treatment plant.
An even simpler chemical toilet consits of a seat on a container or bucket of water, with a solution of chemicals used to disinfect and deoderize.
Chemical toilets are often used on construction sites and at outdoor gatherings such as music festivals.
080 Sanitation, Ventilation, and Illumination (5667 words)
Chemical toilets constructed in conformity with this section may be used in place of privies or where a privy is not permitted due to possible contamination of ground and surface water.
Portable toilets may be chemical, recirculating, or combustion toilets designed for installation in or as an integral part of a skid or wheel mounted portable privy building, or in a separate toilet room, or as a portable privy designed for installation over a manhole of a sanitary or a combined wastewater sewer system.
A portable toilet may comprise of the seat and its treatment unit to be installed in a structure, or it may comprise of an entire prefabricated, skid or wheel mounted, or otherwise portable structure containing a seat or treatment units with a seat.
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