Thread: Burying camping rubbish in the bush

FFS.

I saw an interview recently with a shooter who was digging trenches around his tent - that went out in the 1950s.

Originally Posted by POD

Apparently there are still people who think that the thing to do with your camping rubbish is to bury it in the bush; dig a decent hole, chuck all your rubbish in, shovel some dirt over it and it's gone forever, right?
This in one of the well-used camping areas on Googs Track last week, I reckon it had been there maybe 2 days:
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Is that camping rubbish or toilet paper?
Take rubbish home . Bury your poo but burn the paper in the hole.
Things dig it up and eat it but not the paper.

Leave nothing but footprints or tyre tracks.

I've just got back from two months travelling around WA from Vic, took the Great Central Road ,Oodnadatta track and heaps of other tracks. The amount of toilet paper in the bush and around campgrounds was just disgusting. Nearly every time we pulled into a stop there was toilet paper stuck ion a bush or half buried. Some of the camps on the Oodnadatta track were disgusting.

We carry a toilet bucket with biodegradable bags, easy to use and you can take your waste with you to dispose of properly. My partner would pee in the bush they wrap the toilet paper up and put it in a bag to be disposed of later. It is not hard to do.

Burying rubbish is out, chain saws are in. I've seen them listed under 'essential camping equipment'.
.W.

Originally Posted by 123rover50

Is that camping rubbish or toilet paper?
Take rubbish home . Bury your poo but burn the paper in the hole.
Things dig it up and eat it but not the paper.

Definitely a pile of rubbish- the toilet paper was not buried! Googs has heaps of little camping areas, all of which seemed to have a circumference marked by toilet paper wads. Also it is well established that empty beer cans and bottles take up more space and weigh more than full ones, it is near impossible to carry them in a vehicle once the contents have been consumed.

Years ago I used to shake my head in disbelief that people could go into beautiful places and leave them covered in rubbish and filth; then I worked in ambulance for 26 years and I now realise that this is what their homes look like.

And they wonder why tracks, no, entire areas are becoming closed to them.

Even 50 years ago, bivouacing with the Army, we had to perform an emu bob prior to leaving a site, which was then inspected. You took it in, you take it out, and we were on foot. It's not hard, and there are even cheap rubbish bags to hang on your spare, so the stuff you took in inside your car can be taken out outside of it.

The entitled generation, taking away entitlements for everyone.

While no longer considered good practice when it was done you had to bury it. Rule of thumb was minimum of a yard deep and more was better. That was both rubbish and toilet. These look like they have barely been covered by the dirt