Why This Is The Best Campervan Toilet | Trelino

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A year ago I started using the Trelino composting toilet in my campervan and I shared a video explaining how I'd finally found the best campervan toilet for my needs! I've tried many different vanlife toilets over the years, from casette toilets to composting toilets and I've experienced unpleasant odours, overflows and complicated installation processes.

Trelino are a German company who make beautiful composting toilets. Their portable camping toilet is a simple, well-designed and aesthetically pleasing toilet which is perfect for people who love camping and motorhomes and are looking for a van toilet solution.

In this video, I share my long-term review of the Trelino separating toilet now that I have been using it for one year. I provide my honest opinions and feedback about the Trelino Evo Toilet and share whether if one year later I still think it's the best campervan toilet...

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If we haven't met before... Hi, I'm Ruth 👋 and I recently bought a campervan to travel my home country of Scotland after living overseas for 12 years. I’ve hardly seen anything or been anywhere in Scotland and now is the time to change that!

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00:00 - Other Van Toilet Solutions
02:18 - Introduce Trelino Toilet
03:16 - How to use the toilet
04:02 - How to set up the toilet
07:22 - Emptying the toilet
08:48 - Trelino Toilet FAQs
11:59 - Long Term Review

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If you’re interested to purchase a Trelino toilet, you can use the code “RUTHAISLING”. Please see below.

[douglasreeves]

If you had told me 50 years ago that I would be watching a young Scots lass discussing portable toiliets and enjoying it, I would have passed 18 year old Scotch thru my nose. LOL!! Well done, miss. Very informative and well presented. Stay safe in your travels. Also, I really enjoy your reviews of whisky.

[jerrystark]

Thanks for the video, which is an excellent summary and review of the Trelino Toilet -- and it also reflects our own experiences with this toilet.

We got our Trelino Evo mid-size toilet just before our recent 2 1/2-month trip to the southwestern United States. We used it in our 2021 Aliner Ranger 12 camping trailer. In the past several years, we have used a fold-down camping toilet, a Camco flushing toilet, and a folding Reliant tripod toilet. The portable camping toilet was 8" high, which was difficult for my wife of 70+ years to use. It also had limited capacity. The Camco flushing toilet was bulky, it used considerable water, and it stopped flushing and leaked when the seals failed after only a few weeks on the road. The folding Reliant tripod toilet worked better than the others, but the plastic leg mounts began to crack, so it was not stable or safe at that point.

Our Trelino has none of these problems. It works flawlessly and my wife loves it. Though my wife is the one who uses the toilet, I empty my urine bottle into the toilet each morning. I also use it as a seat when I put on my boots. I weigh 250 lbs and the Trelino holds my weight while I am shifting around on it with no problems at all. It is very solid. I would not fear standing on this unit, but I would lay a 3/4" piece of plywood on the lid before I did so. Why tempt fate?

When we travel, the toilet slides under our bed and is held in place with some short tension rods between the cabinets in front of the bed. We often traveled over rough, teeth-jarring roads with waste in the toilet and had no problems of any kind.

We used coconut coir, potting mix, and clay-based cat litter as drying media in our Trelino. All worked well, but I would not recommend cat litter because it has its own unpleasant smell. Other than that, the Trelino was odor-free even in 90+ degree (F) weather in Utah and Arizona. We also used recycled plastic bags from Trelino, or similarly-sized bin bags, for solid waste becauses the compostable bags seemed to break down a bit too quickly. We just didn't feel confident with them.

As shown in the video, we used a vinegar/water solution to keep the urine diverter fresh after each use. Urine salts sometimes concentrate in the liquid tank, but commercial strength (30%) vinegar or urine descaler cleans the blue tank nicely. If a more thorough wipedown of the toilet was in order, we cleaned it with bleach-based cleaning wipes, which worked perfectly.

Our used solid waste bags were tied up and placed in our regular garbage bags, which were disposed of in campground facilities as needed. The urine tank was emptied and rinsed as needed in a campground toilet. If a vault toilet was used, I took along a bottle of water to rinse out the blue tank. Regular maintenance of this toilet is simple and easy. We disposed of waste toilet tissue in our regular garbage bags rather than in the Trelino. We did so both to save waste capacity and to ensure good contact between the composting medium and the solid waste in the toilet. This worked well for us.

We highly recommend a Trelino toilet. It is a good size for an RV or trailer and is easy and comfortable to use. It is easy to maintain, easy to store, very durable, and (considerably) more affordable than other commercially available urine-diverting toilets. It is also discreet and attractive. No doubt, this toilet was a significant investment for us, but we would buy it again in a heartbeat. Thumbs up all around! 👍👍

Thanks for the video!

[ojbeez]

The good thing about this toilet is that you can also store it in a car if you go on long road trips through the middle of nowhere...you don't have to have a camper van to use it.

[GK]

Excellent summary. Immediately after seeing your first Trelino video, we purchased an EVO-L for our travel trailer. We had a traditional trailer toilet and black tank. We will never go back. The Trelino performs exactly as you describe. Our urine bottle “level meter” is the sound as urine drops into the container. Loud=empty, no sound=time to empty. We also purchased an extra urine container. We use a combination of coconut coir and horse stall absorptive compressed sawdust pellets from a farm stores. We’ve found your vinegar recommendation to be right on. We like EVO’s convenience so much when traveling, so we purchased an Evo-S for our van. We rate our Trelino Evo a 5-star, as we also do for your excellent video. Thanks for sharing your first video and for your Evo experiences.

[gregsletager]

Great review. I use wood pellets in my #2 bin.. In the states these are widely available as heating fuel.

[kikigirlkauai]

Thank you for this. I’m going to get one as an emergency toilet. Earth quake and fires common so water and other supplies and daily things can be in short supply. This is perfect.

[kelliryan]

Thank you so much for fully explaining the functions of a proper composting toilet.
Compliments for discussing an intimate issue with dignity and grace.
I love your your beautiful videos.
1000 blessings and hugs.

[Reillygirl]

So glad you explained the toilet situation in detail which a lot of people are curious about and no one discusses it👍👍

[LoremIpsum]

💯 percent much needed review and discussion on topics people should make a priority. You're now the No1 vanlife scatologist! 👍😉

[andrewrawlance]

Hello Ruth, a video that is not only well put together, but is also very politely made, I cannot think of any use when using the toiled that you have not covered. It sounds to me that it might be a bit expensive, but is money well spent, well made and easy to keep clean who could ask for more. Regards. Andrew.

[maisycakes]

I saw a review of this toilet on another channel and one of the comments said to use hamster bedding from a pet shop . So two good tips - hamster bedding (fine chopped straw) and cat litter !

[ltm]

This toilet was around $300 about 9 months or a year ago, the compact short model, now it’s close to $600. Nothing justifies this kind of inflation. It’s a separation toilet, use the right chemical to help with both 1 or 2, and it’s basically a separation toilet, nothing more. Maybe the seat is more comfortable, but I personally want to spend as short of a time on any toilet if I can help it.

[Cookiedust-ho]

You may be the only YouTube channel in history that has/will ever conduct a toilet giveaway contest! Thanks.

[guermeisterdoodlebug]

Regardless of subject matter, this is one of the best designed and produced YouTube videos I have ever watched.

[moxiemckeldrey]

Hi there everyone! Coming from the Southern United States. I have used a 5 gallon bucket with a snap on toilet lid lined with a composting bag & used peat moss.
Definitely important to keep the items separate.
Depending on the adventure I have a huge rooftop tent, a slide in truck bed camper or a tow behind RV.
I am working on a camper van rebuild/ renovation.
Thank you Ruth!!

[huachafo]

It need to be said: It's unimaginable to watch a video about toilets unless presented in this fashion. Your presentation is a reflection of your personality and is wonderful. When I see my mates tomorrow, and they ask what I did last night, answering that I watched video about camper-van toilets, they'll think I'm daffy.

[melihbozkurt]

Saw dust or wood base produts might work in cool areas but it does not work in hot weather. Compost (plant soils) and Cocunut Coir is the best materials to use in summers.

[marciakeilee]

Thank you Ruth! Efficient and effective review. Well organized-really good job!

[stephenschuit]

Nicely covered. I like the "heads-up" you gave viewers at the beginning.