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Ignore the bad press that still pops up on Facebook.
Kiwi ingenuity & insults
Miriam Richardson
With the new regulations for self containment, Kiwi ingenuity has been handily exercised on a number of fronts. The Black Moa™ toilet has been designed and manufactured from scratch, the Australian Gotta Go toilet , with a choice of composting or chemical toilet cassette has been brought to NZ (ckw.nz/gottago), the Fix-a-Potty™ people have worked on a simple and clever way to fix existing portable toilets to the vehicle in a way that satisfies the regulations, and Fix’n’rail is due out in October.
While the new toilet-makers have been welcomed with interest, the Fix-a-Potty™ people were faced with severe scepticism, not to say unfair condemnation, that still continues to pop up on Facebook and confuse people. To be clear: the mechanism has been thoroughly evaluated and it complies.
The controversy arises out of very poorly written law and equally poorly written regulations, neither of which went through an appropriate evaluation process with campervan and motorhome professionals before being enacted/promulgated. The base of the matter, is that a toilet must remain fixed to the vehicle while the toilet cassette/holding tank is removed for emptying. The Black Moa™ toilet has a bottom box fixed to the floor that holds the toilet up while the cassette is removed. The Gotta Go opens at the top so cassettes can be removed while the toilet remains fixed. The Fix-a-Potty™ bracket and the Fix’n’Rail fixes the top of a previously portable toilet to the floor, in a way that allows the cassette to be removed from beneath it for emptying.
Whew! We can celebrate having a choice of reasonably priced options for complying with a patently absurd law that defines the non-fixedness of toilets as a problem. ◼️
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Black Moa™ © 2024 mystenterprises.com
Gotta Go © 2024 joolca.co.nz
Fix-a-Potty™ © 2024 Teresa Hall
Fix’n’Rail © 2024 mystenterprises.com
9 Spring 2024
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