Toilet Drop point at Cobham Services

Shame they don't incorporate an overnight stop for your £5. But it's a start.
 
Blimey, and I thought it was bad when the price of a wee went up from an old penny to 20p (that's 4/- or a rise of 4,800%).
 
Five pounds?!?! Maybe I've been away too long but that seems a bit pricey to just dump some, er, waste.
 
I use a

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Pick out of the way spot. Dig Hole. ( Be nice if we could get the dog to dig the hole ) Wait 5 mins .. Refill hole ...

One of the sewerage depots is now selling it .. Admittedly its in powder form and ready for administering to fields we just save the farmer the bother ..

When you think about it most of what goes in the toilet comes from the farms anyway. So we just recycle it and give it them back ..

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Teutone said:
Saw this the other day stopping at Cobham Services

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The sign says position vehicle over drain ! Is this just for waste water ? or has someone got it all wrong with caravans and motorhomes.

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User1 said:
The sign says position vehicle over drain ! Is this just for waste water ? or has someone got it all wrong with caravans and motorhomes.

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I think some large American RVs may have a holding tank for black waste as well as separate one for the grey waste.
 
Dig a Hole

User1 said:
I use a

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Pick out of the way spot. Dig Hole. ( Be nice if we could get the dog to dig the hole ) Wait 5 mins .. Refill hole ...

One of the sewerage depots is now selling it .. Admittedly its in powder form and ready for administering to fields we just save the farmer the bother ..

When you think about it most of what goes in the toilet comes from the farms anyway. So we just recycle it and give it them back ..

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That's fine as long as you use the correct deodorant chemicals in your loo. The normal stuff is very,
very polluting.
 
Footpad said:
That's fine as long as you use the correct deodorant chemicals in your loo. The normal stuff is very,
very polluting.
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Interestingly, I often go to the Camping & Caravanning Club Temporary Holiday Sites, many of which are on farmers' fields. Every year, at least one of those farmers simply digs a big hole at the edge of his field and sticks up a bit of hardboard on a stick proclaiming 'Toilet Dump' and everyone - caravanners, motorhomers and the odd camper - dumps the contents of their chemical toilet in the hole. After we leave, the farmer simply backfills the hole but the next year, when he digs the hole in the same place, there is no trace of the previous year's 'poisonous chemicals' - i.e. formaldehyde or whatever is in Elsan Blue. So, it seems the stuff biodegrades harmlessly if buried properly.
 
A fiver to dump 121 litres of poo! Not bad in the scope of things!
 
I like the signs in Tesco stores that state "This door is alarmed". When I ask who or what scared the door I'm greeted with complete incomprehension!

John
 
shaunr68 said:
It's alright for some, our Thetford has a capacity of less than 20 litres. Pound for pound it could work out more expensive than steak :wacko:
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Yeah but some generate more shit than others it would seem. :raofl:
 
Its a start, just not a very good one. At those prices you would have to be desperate, you can't even get drinking water.
 
Is it really for coaches as well? The sign just mentions caravans and motorhomes.
 
daveg said:
Is it really for coaches as well? The sign just mentions caravans and motorhomes.
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As David says, it will have been provided for coaches to encourage them to bring in 50-odd café customers, the sign is just offering the facility to MH owners. I'll bet the coach drivers get the token for free along with their free meal & coffee if they take a couple of dozen or more customers into the café with them.
 
I agree, it drives me nuts too. Although, the education standards we have now are probably the worst in a hundred years, I think the biggest problem is that we have so many people in the UK now with English as a second language. Surely, anything going to print should always be checked by someone with a good command of grammar and punctuation (regardless of where they were born).

One of my favourites was in a Gala Bingo hall car park in east London. It read; 'These car park is only for the use at and of customers.'
 
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