
Emergency Sanitation Recommendations for Hurricane Florence

This Twin Bucket Emergency Toilet separates and contains urine and feces when water borne systems are disabled.
- Gather your supplies:
- Two five gallon buckets. More if possible.
- Toilet seat. Adapt a regular one, buy a camping toilet seat, or use cheap pipe insulation or a pool noodle.
- Carbon based material – sawdust, shredded paper, bark chips, mulch, dry leaves, grass clippings, peat moss, coir fiber.
- Mark the twin buckets “PEE” and “POO”
- Put the buckets in a private space with the carbon materials beside them.
- Decide which bucket you need to use. The seat can be moved between them.
- Try not to mix the pee and poo. The pee is the component that produces the bad smell when the two mix. The poo contains pathogens.
- After using the pee bucket, you can put the toilet paper in the poo bucket. Then remove the toilet seat and cover with a lid that closes well.
- After using the poo bucket and putting the toilet paper in the same bucket, sprinkle as much carbon material is needed to cover the surface of the poo. This reduces the smell and keeps flies away. Cover with toilet seat or a cloth or screen that lets the bucket breathe but doesn’t invite pests.

Flooding near Columbia, South Carolina in October 2015. (By NASA’s Earth Observatory CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)
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