Good question, Momliz. I'll try to remember to ask our trip leader about that and report back.

Lots of items are used to make compost for the gardens many camps/lodges have - growing their own veggies. The other stuff is collected (as the sanitation dept does at home) and shipped out of the reserves/parks. To where? I can't say.

Sandi, yes, I just read in a Wilderness Safaris publication that they use "eco-friendly systems - solar heat and lighting, calcemite tanks for safe sewage processing, can crushers, trucking or flying rubbish out of the camps to towns for safe disposal."

I imagine most of the camps follow the same principals. I just wonder how well the towns are equipped to handle the rubbish.