Sustainable Cardboard Toilet?

I am definitely not a tree hugger in any shape or manner.  Perhaps my girlfriend is; which would explain her love for animals and plants above human life, but that’s the closest you’ll catch me to the eco-love business that’s been floating around.  I should also say that I understand the sheer importance of sustainability and ethical design in today’s rapidly degrading world (I still won’t give up my Dodge Daytona Turbo for an electric car) which leads me to the actual point of this blog post: Sustainable Cardboard Toilets.

Now you must be thinking.  Fred, what the hell are you going on about?  Has all of your unnatural McDonald’s gone to your head?  I assure you it has not.  Fist and foremost, let me give you the rundown on how I came across this miraculous device.  My girlfriend dropped me a link to this thing called TreeHugger.  Now I was thinking: Has she finally gone over the eco-loving edge? But as it turned out.  She hadn’t.  TreeHugger was in fact an on point and intellectual blog about environmental stability and sustainability and how to make our lives more ‘Green’.  Below is a short quip from TreeHugger about who they are and what they do:

TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. At TreeHugger we know that variety is the spice of life, so you can find all you need to go green in our up to the minute blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, weekly radio show and our user-generated blog, Hugg. We also extend our expertise to companies looking for a little green guidance. Past clients include Domino, Sundance Channel and House & Garden.

Well I have to say, with a pagerank of 8; it’s pretty obvious they’re setting the bar for Green Blogs and they’ve got something good going for themselves.  Now what had my attention from the get-go was something affectionately named “The ShitBox” created by Richard Whatron.  Below is a description by him of the box:

“lightweight portable cardboard toilet, made specifically for outdoor use. The concept is simple the box pops up from its convenient 14” flat pack to a rigid reusable box, you pop in a degradable poo bag, do you business, seal and dispose of (responsibly of course!), and off you go.”