The RV toilet disposing of poop with a puff of smoke
Get set to send your poop up in flames. Incinerator toilets are here and set to revolutionise how you deal with your business on the road.
By Catherine Best,
July 2, 2025
Anyone who’s ever been on dump-point duty knows it’s the crappiest job of RV travel. The smell, the flies, the human-waste soup and the stubborn toilet paper sludge that just won’t budge. We’ve all wished we could wave a magic wand and – poof – the doo in the loo would just disappear. Well, with an incinerator toilet it does.
The RV toilet evolootion
It wasn’t that long ago that having a whoopee in the wilderness required a shovel and good balance. Then came crude seats over a hole or worse – a bag. Next came the chemical cassette toilet, which has become a staple in RVs but is slowly being replaced by composting toilets. While both solutions give travellers the freedom to stay off grid and answer nature’s call in dignified privacy, there’s the issue of dealing with the waste. A job that’s not so dignified whichever toilet you have.
Enter the incinerator toilet, the futuristic new way of disposing of human waste that reduces your sewage to cinders.
What is an incinerator toilet?
Those clever Scandinavians have produced the Cinderella Travel Incineration Toilet. This Norwegian-made unit looks and feels like an ordinary RV toilet, but instead of having a composting compartment or storage cassette underneath the seat, it has a removable metal pan. Before each use, a paper liner is placed inside the bowl. When you’re finished doing your business, press the ‘flush’ button and the waste is released into the chamber at the bottom which activates the incinerator. The waste is burnt with a gas-fuelled flame at up to 600°C, turning it into a non-toxic ash. Think of it like a flame thrower for your faeces. After 70 uses (about a week’s worth of toilet stops for a couple), remove the compartment and dispose of the waste in the bin or bury it.
What are the benefits of an incinerator toilet?
You can forget about eyeballing your family’s waste ever again. The incinerator toilet keeps the icky business of number twos out of sight and mind. There’s no odour, except for a slight burning smell when the toilet is actively incinerating, but this is soon sucked away through the ventilation system. With no need to visit a dump point (yippee!) or dispose of compost waste, you can technically remain off-grid indefinitely. Or at least until you’re out of gas, but you will run out of water and food long before then. Incinerating toilets are waterless, so, unlike cassette toilets, you won’t be diverting any precious drinking water to your loo.
Power and install
An incinerator toilet can be retrofitted in your existing RV ensuite. They require a ventilation pipe in the floor for air intake and a ceiling exhaust. The 20kg unit runs off 12V and gas and so needs to be connected to your electrical wires and LPG lines.
When incinerating, the toilet uses about 1.3 amps an hour and burns about 110g grams of gas. This equates to about 40 incinerations per standard 45kg gas bottle. That might sound like a lot of gas, but you can get multiple uses out of one incineration cycle. The toilet can handle four uses per hour, and incineration takes on average 50 to 70 minutes, depending on the volume of waste. If you need to use the toilet during the cycle, that’s okay. Incineration pauses as soon as the lid is lifted and resumes when the toilet is ‘flushed’. The fan has a cooling mechanism so don’t worry, you’re not going to burn your bum.
The paper liners must be used before every toilet stop (they come in boxes of 500) and you can even ‘flush’ small sanitary items. But don’t put alcohol-based wipes, nail polish remover or anything else flammable in the bowl or you may have a fire on your hands!
Maintenance
The main maintenance an incinerator toilet requires is emptying the ash pan. This should be done weekly as the less ash in the chamber, the faster and more efficiently waste incinerates. The ash is sterile and non-toxic, so disposal doesn’t require any special treatment; a bin bag or burial will do the trick. Cinderella also recommends steam cleaning the ash container with a water incineration cycle after each empty. Beyond that, you should clean the exhaust connection after every 500 uses and clean the ventilation pipes and other parts once a year. This is best done by a licensed technician.
Where do I buy an incinerator toilet?
The Cinderella toilet is coming to Australian shores very soon. While the residential units have achieved regulatory compliance in Australia, the travel toilet is still undergoing certification. Check with Australian suppliers for updates and to register your interest. If you can’t wait to torch your toilet waste – and have cash to burn too – the new Kokoda Counterstrike Vincere comes with an all-electric Cinderella Comfort toilet. While this is the residential model, weighing 34kg and using about 1.5kW (240V) per incineration, it’s a great option for gasless RVs.
However you choose to offload your waste, anything beats a shovel.
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