Smelly Subject
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Blue chemicals, such as Blue Diamond, tend to contain Formaldehyde, which is what breaks down waste products and gets rid of smells, but it's toxic and banned in parts of Europe. Check what you're using if you use 'blues'. Many sites with just septic tanks, or 'fosse septiques' don't allow it to be used (including the site where we have a caravan near Harrogate), so beware those of you who go 'off grid' and stay at a lot of CL's and CS's.
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new year new man
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Black bits are a problem (which are mould) with the pink. We switched to using it for Zoflora works a treat and smells wonderful. I tend to mix up a gallon before I set off to save time.
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I'm glad this has come up. While it's only a tiny bit of chemical each time, when you take a site with tens of caravans all emptying waste each day, that's some quantity. If what you're using has got a "hazardous" icon on it, no matter how tiny, it's not eco-friendly, and it does damage.
Hopefully "Blue Planet" recently moved a few more people to think in terms of what we all chuck away and where it ends up. That a product might be something we've used for ages, or pennies cheaper, doesn't make it better, now we know how damaging it is.
When we were looking for eco-friendly loo stuff last year, we found all the bottles on the caravan shop shelf had to admit, however much they shrank the information, that they were harmful to the environment, corrosive, etc.
So we're on http://bluebio.co.uk/new/new-website/ (even if their new website is a bit too whizzy for its own good!)
It's not as cheap per bottle to buy as some other things discussed here, but when comparing how many doses you get per bottle compared to some other products, also putting it in proportion to what most of us easily spend on a night's rent, or a couple of plates of fish and chips, the eventual environmental benefit seems worth it to us. Our current bottle's been used for maybe 30 nights, for both liquid and solid waste, and it's about half way down.
I've got a sensitive schnozzle, and find the smell aspect is fine. It even passed the 6-yr old granddaughter test, and she's very choosy! It works, and it seems to keep the caravan's system clean too.
And ultimately it counts as sewage rather than chemical waste, which is what most of the others are when they all arrive in the water courses.
I guess there are other equally safe products available, my point is to turn away from the damage we've been doing for years.1 -
Thanks for the link to bluebio, I'll give it a go. The Blue that contains formaldehyde is evil stuff and there must be a good ecologically friendly alternative.
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You're most welcome :-) If we can leave the world a slightly less polluted place for our grandchildren that'll be a good thing!
As you say, formaldehyde is evil stuff once it's let loose, and while sadly products still include it because it's what people used to use, that's flying in the face of knowledge moving on.
I hope you find this stuff works for you!
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I have tried quite a few things and at the moment I am using a small amount of Zoflora in the flush tank (heard it on here) I have had the mould so I wouldn't consider Fabric Softener that some people use. I also put a few drops of Zoflora in my Steam Cleaner in the house and it smells great - but I mean a few drops I wouldn't want a lot.
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