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if the toilet does not function, bowel movements can be stored in those ubiquidous plastic bags drapped over a wastebasket which every household has a bundle of. It can be tied and double bagged as needed and stored in a larger garbage bag for evntual pick-up. This prevents some odors and containment of sanitary pollution. This should be talked about openly and should have been discussed at this blog of the EPA. I personally did double bagging and burning of the garbage rurally a couple of years ago when burn barrels were permitted but now no longer and one would have to dispose of the larger garbage bag at the local alpiss of ueas a way to copy with a sanitary issue. uproblem.se I landfill or transfer station. At any rate it needs to be discussed and are there any other better ideas and what about disposal of urine? Any ideas out there other than just diluting the urine with rain water? I have also worked as a forest lookout one summer and we used an outdoor toilet with some lye sprinkled on the excrement – maybe a large plastic bucket can be designated as a toilet- one for each floor?