Eco‑Friendly Portable Toilets: Sustainability Matters

Eco‑Friendly Portable Toilets: A Complete Guide for Sustainable Events

Sustainability isn’t just a trend, it’s a responsibility for everyone and the more you can help in small ways, the bigger the impact we can all have together. If you’re planning an event or managing a job site, you might be surprised to learn that portable toilets can be a very eco‑friendly choice.

Here’s how portable toilets help protect the environment and what options are available for greener sanitation at your event or job site in the Muskoka area.

1. Portable Toilets Save Water, A LOT of Water

A single flush toilet uses 4–6 litres of water. Multiply that by hundreds of guests, and you’re looking at thousands of litres of water used per event. According to the Danamark, the water experts, toilet flushing alone consumes the equivalent of 200 bottles of water per day.

Compare this with our basic portable toilet, that doesn’t use any water to flush and you’re saving so much water per day. In the winter, we add in a salt-brine solution that keeps the porta-potties from freezing over, this also saves dangerous cracks and damages to the units that can cause spills and contaminate the surrounding area.

Our deluxe sink and flush units do have water to flush and wash hands in it, but even that is a huge saving on water due to the fact that the sink and toilet share a reservoir and it takes much less water to flush one of these toilets than your average indoor, plumbed toilet.

2. Waste Is Professionally Contained and Treated – Local Lagoons

Instead of wastewater going into aging sewer systems or septic tanks that may be overloaded, portable toilets keep everything contained until it’s pumped and treated properly. We safely dispose of the waste into a selection of local lagoons that accept sewage from Muskoka only. This is the most sanitary and safe way to dispose of wastewater and sewage in the area.

The lagoons in town are tucked away throughout Muskoka in Bracebridge, Huntsville, Baysville and more, but you probably didn’t know it was there. That’s because the way that lagoons operate include strict laws and closures to ensure they are not overfilled and don’t become too smelly and to minimize the amount of disagreeable bacteria that can be found in lagoons and interrupt the process. When a lagoon is too full, they are shut down to drop-offs, and you must provide a raw sample to have the load be accepted into the facility.

The last thing you want to worry about is having your septic tank overflow due to overuse and having the sewage spilled onto your property or even worse, into any sort of body of water. This is why it’s best to leave it to the professionals like us at Call of The Wild to handle these matters for you.

It’s clean, controlled, and environmentally responsible to have a porta-potty at events and work sites. You can give us a call anytime to set up the rental of a porta-potty for your next work site or event.

3. Eco‑Friendly Deodorizers Are Available

Gone are the days of harsh blue chemicals that heavily featured chemicals like formaldehyde that were effective but not very eco-friendly. Many modern deodorizers are biodegradable, non-toxic, septic-safe, and plant-based.

The main goal today is to introduce enzymes and microbes that can consume all of the odor-causing bacteria, instead of simply trying to mask the smell, the new methods are actively destroying them.

This is such an upgrade from the way things used to be, and a much greener option for the current day use of porta-potties.

4. Recycling and Waste Sorting Stations Pair Perfectly

If you’re planning a green event, portable toilets fit right into your eco‑friendly setup in the Muskoka area. This can mean having a composting bin at your food tent in addition to recycling to help get people to sort their waste and make sure it’s going to the correct facility afterwards.

Having clear and direct signage wherever there is a recycling station to help reduce the amount of litter at your event, thereby also reducing the amount of clean up on your end and harmful pieces of trash and food getting into your local wildlife habitat.

Having a garbage station at the entrance and exit to your event will prevent trash from leaving the grounds and not making it to the car and reduce the amount of litter in the parking lot or along the roadway back to people’s vehicles.

When planning an event that includes a handwashing station, something you can do to reduce the amount of garbage coming out of the event would be placing recycling bins beside the sinks to capture all of the discarded paper towel that people have dried their hands with. When factoring in the amount of garbage we haul out of an event that goes with the sink stations, there would be a considerable amount less if there were paper towel and garbage receptacles.

With some extra thought, you can reduce a lot of waste not making it where it needs to be!

5. Protecting Local Wildlife and Plants

It’s hard enough to keep a sapling or new plant alive on the best of times. But if you’re throwing a great party and the men in the group decide to use your tree line as a pee line, you’re greatly risking the life of those small plants trying to grow there.

Human waste of any sort can also be very harmful for the animals in your neighbourhood. We carry with us so many germs that can be deadly for animals who don’t have any of the illness fighting bacteria that we do. And up here in Muskoka, there are more critters than you think roaming around when you aren’t looking. Porta-potties and event trailers can save their lives and make for a much cleaner backyard or park space for all who use it!

Final Thoughts

Portable toilets are far greener than most people realize and might be a surprising realization for most. Whether you’re planning a wedding, festival, or construction project, choosing eco‑friendly sanitation options is an easy way to reduce your environmental footprint.

Want help choosing the most sustainable setup? We’ve got plenty of green options to recommend and help you find what works best for your event.