Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
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Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
I'm seeing info pop up on Facebook about a company offering rental organic toilets with specific marketing targeted at Burning Man camps. This company, whom I shall not name at this time in order to not run afoul of eplaya guidelines, apparently made quite a splash at the Oregon Eclipse with their toilets. They are claiming to offer full servicing of the units within your camp as part of the service. As a renter of normal USS portos for our camp each year, I am curious if these guys are legit. I don't see them listed on the approved OSS list, but then again, there is no category for Portajohns. The units look large and each one offers two seats on a raised platform with a large tank system behind/underneath them. They claim the waste becomes fertilizer that will be used locally.
Does anyone have any further info regarding the legitimacy of these for Burning Man? Are they approved as an OSS? I asked for a quote and am awaiting a response, mostly for research purposes.
Does anyone have any further info regarding the legitimacy of these for Burning Man? Are they approved as an OSS? I asked for a quote and am awaiting a response, mostly for research purposes.
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
Are the 2 seats together in the same Porto?
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Those stairs won't work at the event. Imagine the accidents! The existing toilets don't dump their product in a lake. It's also used as fertilizer. (I worked the porto potty project with Robbie Dobbs.)
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
Yep! Straight on to alfalfa fields is what I heard.
I've got to agree. The stairs would be the new astro turf slide.
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We could play Rock, Paper,Scissors!
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
The immediate response to my comment on their facebook page about them not appearing on the Approved list of OSS vendors :
Hi Dave, I'm ______, the Social Media lady for ________. I'm checking in about this.... Hang tight!
Uh huh...
Hi Dave, I'm ______, the Social Media lady for ________. I'm checking in about this.... Hang tight!
Uh huh...
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
Not recommending or dissing one way or the other. Just presenting info. This was the response when I mentioned that only approved OSS vendors would be allowed and that I would not commit to anything like this unless info comes from the BMORG about it.
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
I got a question for them. How are you going to provide a toilet for the burners in wheelchairs? There is currently one at the end of each bank.
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If this is a private company, providing for camps and not providing for the general public they don’t have to have accessible Porto’s
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But they say that they are in talks with the borg about 'one bank'. They should put them up 30 feet in the air with just a railing around the seat. No walls. Sky potty.
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
Just hang a bucket off the second step and a bag of kitty-litter next to it, call it done. 
It’s funny, for being massive tree-huggers, they sure blew off the ADA requirement.
It’s ironical!

It’s funny, for being massive tree-huggers, they sure blew off the ADA requirement.
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Hahahahaha I didn’t realize the “in talks with...”
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this, so often. yeah, people will say or claim anything to be accepted and make a profit.....
Also: I like Ratty's idea: maybe a bingo tarp under the "sky potties" and people can bet....
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
If it's the company I'm thinking of, they add wood sawdust to the urine and poop. That's a difficult material to handle on playa. It is extremely doubtful that that small a company can jump through all the BLM/BORG OSS hoops. An ex of mine actually proposed to the BORG a cassette toilet system many years back pre-OSS, with the cassette periodically removed for composting off site. Maybe the Nevada add-to poop and urine kitty litter is ground sagebrush?
Many people are slobs in public potties, that is why they have restroom attendants in many countries with a nominal tip.
Gambling is legal and encouraged in Nevada, not sure Pershing. To @Ratty, poop gambling is a thing in small town Oregon - scan down https://wandering-through-time-and-plac ... -gambling/.
I have volunteered with Hot Wheelz, so I'm many thousands percent with clean disability access.
Many people are slobs in public potties, that is why they have restroom attendants in many countries with a nominal tip.
Gambling is legal and encouraged in Nevada, not sure Pershing. To @Ratty, poop gambling is a thing in small town Oregon - scan down https://wandering-through-time-and-plac ... -gambling/.

I have volunteered with Hot Wheelz, so I'm many thousands percent with clean disability access.
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Aaaaaand whose to say they wouldn’t be adding an ADA accessible Porto at the end of the bank just like any other approved vendor?
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
FWIW. Searched ePlaya to see if I could find info on Portos since we had issues this year with ours and found this post. I believe they were a verified OSS vendor since I heard there was a public bank of them outside out 10:00 and our well known neighbors had a 2 Porto unit and was I able to experience them. First off, yes there are two separate stalls. Yes, there are stairs, but I believe it is needed to account for the composting section. No, they do not use sawdust. Yes, they were the best porto’s I have ever used, roomy, sturdy, not smelly at all. Yes they are very expensive. No chemicals. Yes, It was the best Porto’s I have ever experienced and that includes getting brand spanking new Porto’s in our camp last year. Yes, they are insanely expensive to rent and service (all in one price). Huge potential for the future.
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Re: Organic Toilet Vendor Legit and OSS Approved?
Yup, have seen several posts on FB regarding these post-burn... almost all raves. There was a bank of 3 units out by 10:00 (6 seats) and they were kept very clean by the company throughout the event (other than one sour post about one being a mess that I have seen). A couple of other camps have posted about their experience and they loved them and claimed they were the best upgrade they had ever made. Food for thought!
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Destiny Lounge has been proven to cause cuteness in small kittens.
Destiny Lounge 3D - located in the 3:00 Plaza at G for 2019! Look for our art installation too: The Temple uv Enlightenment!
Destiny Lounge has been proven to cause cuteness in small kittens.
Destiny Lounge 3D - located in the 3:00 Plaza at G for 2019! Look for our art installation too: The Temple uv Enlightenment!