A chemical toilet is a toilet using chemicals to disinfect the waste instead of simply storing it in a hole, or piping it away to a sewage treatment plant. These toilets are most commonly found on airplanes and trains, identified with a blue colored dye in the bowl water. An even simpler chemical toilet consits of a seat on a container or bucket of water, with a solution of chemicals used to disinfect and deoderize. Commonly found on inter-city buses and in homes where indoor plumbing is not available.

Disinfection is generally carried out by mixing formaldehyde or similar chemicals with the toilet water when flushed.

Chemical toilets are often used on construction sites and at outdoor gatherings such as music festivals.

The formaldehyde being very irritating to skin nose and throat, and it is being replaced by other proprietry blends such as glutaraldehyde and quaternary ammonium compounds, with non staining dyes and nature identical perfume oils.

See also

• composting toilet

Toilets

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