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I came back from a trip last week in which I needed to use my wag bag toilet system. I did not need to use the storage bucket for the feces filled wag bags, just the open topped bucket that is lined with the wag bag that supports the toilet seat. And only briefly, for a couple days use.
Wag bags, despite being in a double zip lock bag inside an outer bag, stink, and so did the plastic 5 gallon toilet seat stand.
Not of feces, but of the wag bag and activated poo powder within the bag liner. It stinks with a disgusting odor akin to a recently disinfected porta potty. Not a problem in use, but the empty plastic bucket itself stinks long after it is emptied.
Herein lies the stench dilemma, I needed to transport the support bucket home in the truck. I do not want it up front in the cab for a nine hour drive, and I do not want it in the back under the cap where I make my bed while travelling. This is even more of an issue when driving home on cross country trips, especially taking driver and sleeper shifts.
I had access to an outside utility sink for a couple days before I returned and tried to destenchify the bucket using a variety of cleaning products available where I was staying. Dish soap (nope), car washing soap (nope), bleach (nope), bleach and stain remover (nope). I let it sit full of bleach and water for several hours before scrubbing it. Nope.
Whatever that stench is it has a miraculous ability to cling to plastic.
In the end I found some Febreze antimicrobial spray and doused the bucket with that. It actually seemed to work. Granted the bucket had already been washed five times, but it smelled mostly of Febreze for a day or two and is now essentially odorless.
I need to try this on the gasket sealed bucket that holds the filled wag bags in the canoe. That bucket does not stink with the lid screwed tightly on, but woo wee does it stink inside even months later. Years later; I just opened it.
EDIT: I am learning how to channel my inner Mattie Ross and use no contractions. Can nots, I wills and it is do not come naturally. The urge to use apostrophes and quotation marks is hard to overcome.
Wag bags, despite being in a double zip lock bag inside an outer bag, stink, and so did the plastic 5 gallon toilet seat stand.
Not of feces, but of the wag bag and activated poo powder within the bag liner. It stinks with a disgusting odor akin to a recently disinfected porta potty. Not a problem in use, but the empty plastic bucket itself stinks long after it is emptied.
Herein lies the stench dilemma, I needed to transport the support bucket home in the truck. I do not want it up front in the cab for a nine hour drive, and I do not want it in the back under the cap where I make my bed while travelling. This is even more of an issue when driving home on cross country trips, especially taking driver and sleeper shifts.
I had access to an outside utility sink for a couple days before I returned and tried to destenchify the bucket using a variety of cleaning products available where I was staying. Dish soap (nope), car washing soap (nope), bleach (nope), bleach and stain remover (nope). I let it sit full of bleach and water for several hours before scrubbing it. Nope.
Whatever that stench is it has a miraculous ability to cling to plastic.
In the end I found some Febreze antimicrobial spray and doused the bucket with that. It actually seemed to work. Granted the bucket had already been washed five times, but it smelled mostly of Febreze for a day or two and is now essentially odorless.
I need to try this on the gasket sealed bucket that holds the filled wag bags in the canoe. That bucket does not stink with the lid screwed tightly on, but woo wee does it stink inside even months later. Years later; I just opened it.
EDIT: I am learning how to channel my inner Mattie Ross and use no contractions. Can nots, I wills and it is do not come naturally. The urge to use apostrophes and quotation marks is hard to overcome.