Port-a-potty Situation Currently?

[scriptorpress]

Hi all

So my last Burn was 2009 (went for 11 years), and one of the struggles at BRC was always dealing with the port-a-potties. As much as the good sanitation folks hired tried to keep them empty and clean, the struggle was both shear numbers of users, and the smaller number among them who would use them like trash cans.

How has this changed in recent years? Just curious what possibly to expect upon my return in 2022

[Sham]

The last several years they've looked really good. People have been very respectful and the companies clean them several times a day. I would almost go out on the line and say, if you were eating a tuna sandwich in there and dropped half on the floor, you could still eat it.

Pro tips:
1) don't eat a tuna sandwich in a porta potty ever
2) if you do eat a tuna sandwich and drop half, don't eat it

[gaminwench]

The last five years, our camp had private portos. Best decision ever.

[DoctorIknow]

Even at their worst in the last few years, I'm forever greatful they weren't 1/20 as bad as in the late '90's

[unjonharley]

The last five years, our camp had private portos. Best decision ever.

My own urine container has made potty/pee experience much better .. Next year it will be a 5 gallon water tank , , with a hose and Jack and jane pee-funnels . .

[Captain Goddammit]

You could always be “radically self reliant” and take care of your own bathroom logistics.
As well as all your own other logistics.
This isn’t a vacation resort, it’s a cover-your-own-ass event in the middle of a desert.
This is part of why I love 2020 and 2021.

[scriptorpress]

Thanks for the updates, guys!

[The Rod]

Whatever you do, do not bring your own porta potty on a trailer, unload it from the trailer, spend a week shitting in it and then have no way to get it back on the trailer once it’s full of shit, and then leave it on the playa to be blown over in a windstorm 3 days later into a massive pile of bio-hazardous MOOP.

Do not be those people.

[scriptorpress]

Whatever you do, do not bring your own porta potty on a trailer, unload it from the trailer, spend a week shitting in it and then have no way to get it back on the trailer once it’s full of shit, and then leave it on the playa to be blown over in a windstorm 3 days later into a massive pile of bio-hazardous MOOP.

Do not be those people.

I did not even know "those people" existed! Really? How often does that happen? FUCKKKKK

[gaminwench]

Hmmm.
I am absolutely a self-reliant, dry (no grey/black) waste camper.

However, I do enjoy a private camp porto.

Call me spoiled.

[Savannah]

Hi all

So my last Burn was 2009 (went for 11 years), and one of the struggles at BRC was always dealing with the port-a-potties. As much as the good sanitation folks hired tried to keep them empty and clean, the struggle was both shear numbers of users, and the smaller number among them who would use them like trash cans.

How has this changed in recent years? Just curious what possibly to expect upon my return in 2022

As a person who started Burning a million years ago, I can state that the portos have been great for a while now. At night, near the sound camps @ 10 and 2, they still run out of paper or sometimes get a little dicey, but that's to be expected. It's nothing like it used to be. It's so much better.

Remind everyone you camp with to travel always with:

Clip light
One-ply
Hand sanitizer
Empty Baggies, for wipes or tampons
Spares of anything you would like to give away. I have given away so much one-ply! It's such an easy way to help another person. Everyone acts like gifts have to be profound or expensive. NOPE.

A cheap oval-mouth automotive funnel and an empty 100 oz detergent bottle is great for anyone who doesn't want to spend an hour a day just trudging to the biffies for a mere pee, or trying to find the portos @ 3am when it's cold. Empty once a day; practice before playa.