Urban Survival Sanitation – Items you should stockpile:
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Rob Richardson
When planning to survive in an Urban Survival situation, one thing that’s often overlooked is the dangers associated with a lack of adequate sanitation. I know it’s not a pleasant thing to think about, but this one issue has the potential to spread disease, pollute the waterways, and kill more people than any other survival topic that we can talk about .
If something happened that caused the sewage systems to shut down and the garbage trucks to stop running, can you imagine how fast things would spiral out of control? From people “going in the streets” to those that will be burning toxic garbage in their backyards, big cities and urban areas will quickly become a threat to your health and safety.
I think sanitation will be one of the most significant survival issues facing those living in an urban environment.
Sanitation items you may want to stockpile:
Bathroom Products
- 5 Gallon Toilet Buckets
or a Portable Camping Toliet
- If you can afford it, a Composting Toilet
is probably a better long term solution and makes clean up a lot easier.
- Rapid-Dissolving Toilet Paper
Waste Removal
- Garbage Bags
- Ziploc Bags
- Composting System
- Chemical Gloves
- Disposable Plastic Gloves
Survival Hygiene
- Soaps & Waterless Soaps
- Hand Sanitizers
- Antibacterial Creams & Ointments
- Toothpaste
- Band Aids and wraps
- Bottles of Isopropyl Alcohol
- Dust Masks
- Cleaning Supplies & Bleach
Water
- Water Purification Chemicals ( Bleach, Iodine Tablets, etc)
- Heavy Duty Pot that can boil water over an open fire.
- A good Water Filter (we recommend the Katadyn Pocket Water Microfilter
)
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You may want to add an E-tool. ( small, portable, folding shovel for non-military people.) You can dig a small trench where your camping, and bury your fecal waste when you change camp sites. This is a common practice in the military when outhouses aren’t available.
True as long you are 500 feet from water source.
500 feet is a good idea but not necessary given this situation. the water system is already compromised at this point. as far as possible and adequately safe would be more important. you don’t want to be running out in the middle of the night to drop a deuce and a zombie takes you out.
marine too funny, lmao…rule #5 Stay away from bathrooms.
haha
e-tool is an essential… in general, this is an often overlooked topic but one as needful as any discussion of the four B’s…
I went to the recycling dumpsters and found some sturdy plastic buckets with lids; also cat litter buckets are good. Check your local dumpsters where plastics are recycled, and take a long handle hoe to fish it out if beyond your reach.
Great idea, it can also be used first as water carrier till needed.
How about saving old phone books as backup toilet paper? It may not be as good as TP but it certainly beats some random leaf off a tree.
The phone book is a great option. All paper, including magazines, can be used for this. Crumple up the paper and uncrumple it several times and it becomes very soft and manageable.
Do you crumble before or after use? LOL
This is true, I have tried it before when I went to a bathroom in Miami with no TP but a huge poster on the wall… Crumple up the paper and uncrumple it several times. IT took me 10 min but got the shitty job done.
I have a copy of the koran to use for emergency TP. Works great but not very soft. I’s sure that when Abdul’s gas station finds the used pages on his bathroom floor he gets a nice warm feeling of Love for Americans.
Steve, you’re an a@#$….the Koran has nothing to do w/this topic. Don’t be the type of person that incites anger or a fight. What a stupid random post – grow up. How the fk is your post beneficial to the conversation? If you have beef w/the Koran and you have balls – go and do crumple the Koran in front of Abdul’s face. If not, then shut the F up and enjoy our American Freedom and liberty. Stay on topic or find a diff. site that is conducive to bashing others.
They quit making colored/dyed toliet paper decades ago due to it causing infections in anus of both sexes and vaginas. Certainly using a yellow book page was not meant to be used for TP and would be far worse than the old colored TP sold.
If you are going to stock pile, it might as well be toilet paper. It is specific for the job, cleaner and lighter than phone books and magazines. Those should be kept in mind once you run out of tp and are scavenging for materials.
My parents just got back from China. They had to bring their own TP to China because they don’t use any…yep, you read it right. They don’t use TP at all.
Then that was true only in the city they were in. When My wife and I went there in 2001 to adopt our daughter in Kunmimg City, our hotel had toilet paper and in the restaurants we were at they did also.
A great replacement for toilet paper is a new never been used hundson sprayer. the type of thing used to spray chemicals for weeds and bugs. Simple pump it up and spray your but off
I installed a bidet in one of our bathrooms. It works great. I don’t run out of water since we have gravity fed spring water, runs 24/7 all year round. No water bill or pump to pay for.
If your eat right your body will digest properly (veggies and fibers)… SO by the time you dump it . it will come out quick and clean…you will not need any TP…trust me.
Unfortunately not everybody’s body works this way!
Trink, that may be because Asians squat to poo. All comes out etc. VS sitting it pinches our “pipes” and strains to come out. Infact, the primary reason for cause of colon cancer is by NOT squating to poop. Expains why it’s one of the leading causes of cancer in the USA and is super rare with those in Asian countries. It is not diet… in fact Asians eating a lot of rice and tofu is two of some of the worst foods for humans.
Rice sticks to intestions and dehydrates. It is very hard on digestive sysetem. Tofu as all soy is is actual posion for humans. I encourage people to learn the posions and not take some others word for it that it is healthy. It is especialy DANGEROUS for children. Meat is worse for digestive system and can take over 3 years to escape out of body. But like I mentioned and proof is out there .. look it up… squat to poo folks! Even a small part of France only has squating toliets and no colon cancer in their community. Figure out a way to do it in America.
Years ago before I retired from the plumbing business, I did a job where most of the workers were from china. There was a bank of about 20 toilet stalls and the workers would stand on the toilet seats and squat. Boy, they sure made a mess of the place. The owner had me check on a comercial squat type of toilet that would flush, Zurn brand made one with non-slip treads even, but the cost was too high for each toilet. They ended up telling the chinese workers to sit on the johns or be fired. LOL
It’s also a good thing to keep in mind that if you have no access to toilet paper to have a few packets of sanitary towelettes in your pocket. I would recomend at least two packets. One for wiping and another for cleaning your hands afterwards.
Although it could get gnarly, this really is one thing that seems like it would be good to test now.
Especially for the city-dwelling urbivalists in the group, sanitation and waste removal could be a really tough thing, requiring a lot of creativity.
There was a similar discussion thread (human waste as well as consumer waste) on Zombie Squad about this recently, that essentially boiled down to the following hierarchy:
1) compost/mulch the organic stuff you can
2) burn as much paper and cardboard as you can
3) store the plastic, glass and metal in as creative and efficient manner as possible.
Great article guys.
An item that seems to always be overlooked is a set of three sink sized tubs that will handle exposure to hot water and bleach. While it may seem wasteful when clean water is at a premium, once you get into a routine it allows you to wash dishes in a food service style wash, rinse, sanitize manner. They easily serve double duty as containers for the other items while you’re storing them as well.
Anyone ever figure out the three seashells thing? That could be usefull in this situation.
You don’t know how to use the three seashells???
heh! He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells.
In regard to not having toilet paper in China, is maybe “Far fetched”? I spent 6 years in China, I was all over from Beihai to Dalian, including Kunming, and there was toilet paper available. BUT in some places you have to supply your own. Most country people carry a package of tissue with them.
Even the in floor hole is fast dissapearing…and they have wonderful bathrooms and paper in all hotels.
Don’t be afraid to go, but be prepared!
I’d like to add some 100 proof vodka/grain alcohol. Isopropyl alcohol is a bacteriostatic, which means it doesn’t kill the bacteria, it just renders them unable to multiply.
catty liter would be good thing to add to the list.i help to cut down on the oder.
Save your corn cobs to replace T/P.