Each hiker is aware of the stench of an amazing, sizzling enclosed drop dunny in the midst of nowhere. It’s the final word punish for doing the proper factor and leaving no hint, however because of the Clesana C1, dropping off your ones and twos responsibly is about to get a complete lot more energizing.
The standard of bathrooms in distant locations within the outdoor varies vastly. I’ve been to pristine almost-odourless bathrooms in NSW with glorious air flow, well-oiled locks, and loads of bathroom paper equipped. I’ve additionally been to slim ramshackle timber shacks within the Victorian bush that may very well be smelt from 50m away, and have been offering lodgings for all method of bugs.Â
Air flow prime and backside is all the time a superb signal, however you continue to would possibly cop a horde of flies in your face while you open the lid | Shot by Jo Guthridge
The issue of waste disposal in our wild locations isn’t a straightforward one. It’s costly to assemble, preserve, and transport the byproducts of distant bathrooms. Heck, it’s exhausting sufficient for caravan homeowners who should construction their journeys round dump factors in the event that they need to proceed to have the comfort of a rest room on board.Â
However all this inconvenience and scent would possibly be on the best way out because of the Clesana C1 – Australia’s first water-free bathroom system.
What’s it?
Straight outta Europe, the Clesana C1 moveable bathroom makes use of a heat-sealing methodology to rework your deposits (ones and twos!) into neatly sealed, odour-proof luggage, which may be thrown away in regular family waste. No water, no big gap, no swarm of flies.
It’s been designed for ‘integration into caravans, yachts, tiny houses, and distant vacationer amenities’. And in accordance with Clesana Australia Director Sebastian Langton, this high-performing miracle bathroom ‘combines hygiene, consolation, and environmental sustainability multi functional bundle’.
For those who’re something like me your thoughts is already reeling with potentialities.
Whereas these are principally being utilised in home, neighborhood and cell caravans proper now, the potential to drastically enhance waste disposal and scent mitigation in hard-to-access locations is large. This’d be nice alongside multi-day mountaineering trails to switch the nightmarish smelly loos that price a bomb in upkeep.
Despite the fact that we have already got WAG Baggage, and poo tubes, massive communal drop bathrooms nonetheless depart a hefty hint on the atmosphere – and the Clesana C1 might change all of that! The joy is excessive.
Learn extra: 10 Tricks to Depart No Hint in Our Wild Locations
How do these bathrooms work?
Image this: You’ve simply answered nature’s name on the C1. As an alternative of a protracted drop, or utilizing a small spade to drop wooden chips down there, this bathroom heat-seals every thing right into a sanitary bag. The baggage, which are available rolls of 100, are simple to load and even simpler to get rid of.
You possibly can chuck them in your normal family waste, and so they’re good to go.
The liner foil system traps germs and micro organism alongside together with your waste, so there’s no scent.
I couldn’t discover what the luggage are at the moment created from, however Clesana are growing a ‘liner from bio-based and recycled Polyethylen to make the C1 much more eco-friendly’. In order that’s excellent news.
The bathroom system seems like a stellar resolution for caravans and campers, however I’m questioning what it means for distant bathrooms. Assuming these get adopted into our parks, will the luggage be collected and eliminated by rangers, or would the onus be on thru-hikers to hold our waste out and get rid of it ourselves upon return to civilisation?
Frankly any resolution meaning we see much less of this can be a winner in my ebook | Photograph by Rick McCharles through Flickr | License
Is there a Catch?
New product improvements are by no means low cost – and the Clesana C1 isn’t any exception. Presently being manufactured in Waterloo, in Sydney, every Clesana C1 is $3,500 a pop. So it’s going to be out of attain of nearly each campervan proprietor I do know, and in need of being an adjunct add-on it’d rival the price of some trailers altogether.
I don’t assume we’ll be seeing them in caravans or non-public setups anytime quickly, however there’s undoubtedly potential to see these in our nationwide parks and on longer mountaineering trails.
What do you reckon? Do you assume the Clesana C1 will substitute drop dunnies in our wild locations?
