At home - use the powers of your microwave (assuming your scrub doesn't have metal content) to heat/steam sanitize an older scrub.  Let air dry and then put in small ziplock.

At camp - use small amount of bleach in your rinse water.  When done with dishes, scrub goes into the bleach water, and is wrung out.  Ours typically goes right back in the ziplock.  I guess you could air dry it out, or even put it on a hot rock next to the fire for a full dry.

Throw out with the trash upon return.

I'm not sure I would want my water bucket hanging on back of pack, no matter how it was attached or located
In my experience, the more you hang on outside of pack, the more chances you have to snag or hang-up especially if the trail is a little rough.
Snag that water bucket, or lean against rock not thinking and you wind up with a leaking water bucket.

I'd look for a small mesh zip bag with clip or loop for carabiner and clip that on bag of pack or near haul loop. I know there around, you just need to look in pack accessories. I have a kitchen gear bag that has a built in mesh sack for scrubee. IF you need a new set-up I'd get one with the mesh built in, if not I'd consider the little mesh gear sack

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Rince it with a mild bleach solution.

Odoriferous emanations.........yuk! 

Rinse, boil with rinse water added right after the last cup of coffee is made and shake out and hang in mesh bag with other compadres to dry; or in the cook kit for the daily trip in the wee hours of the morning damp. I cut a big one up so when they get sketchy they go into the construction of the righteous garbage bag.

I don't take a scrubby with a sponge attached, but use a plastic one that is more like a chore-boy, just a plastic mesh thing.  That and an SOS if we are cooking over a fire (for the sooty pots) is all I use for washing dishes.

I do take a small bottle of dish soap, but it isn't drippy and have never had a problem with it.

After scrubbing dishes the scrubby is rinsed with hot water (recently boiled) like the dishes and packed into a ziplock bag wet.  It never gets unpleasant and I have never worried about bacteria.  However, if I were to do so (and now I may) I would use the "few drops of bleach) method.  But I would not take a scrubby with a sponge attached, ever.

After a trip, a used one just is thrown away, and of course so are any used SOS pads.  I use the SOS very sparingly and often only use one on an entire trip.

These days dishwashing liquid is antibacterial so the sponge tends to last longer than it use to IMO. My "silverware" ... cups and stuff (toothbrush) hang from a tree in a mesh bag but the soap and sponge go elsewhere in an open upside-down bag so the sponge can dry, somewhat. (I can dream at least.) In any case, I don't want that sponge anywhere near my toothbrush.

I have always used a water bottle cozy that I'd keep wet in warmer weather. Now with all summer trips it's always wet and bacteria poop will normally noticeably sour it in a few days. I don't expect it will kill me either but I can only ignore it for so long so I've gone the bleach route by repurposing a little, maybe 1/4 oz bottle that once held eye drop something or other I noticed in the recycle bin one day. I've been watching for a nice bottle twice as big for soap as that would last me two weeks easily.

I'll throw the sponge in the bleach bath too just cuz I can I guess. It's still not going near my toothbrush.

I am amazed the cozy has retained its color over the years. I was actually hoping it would get a few shades lighter by now but you only need a drop or two per 1/2 quart H2O to fix the smell.

If I remember correctly, bars and restraints use some sort of sanitizer that I expect might work too. Don't know if there's any advantages or not. Just a possible option if available.

LMAO

Marlin

Now they make TP without the dreaded, ultra-heavy & bulky cardboard tubes.

Hey, I was KIDDING!  Let's not go there.  It's dangerous.

prouboy

Yeah, I'm going to hell. 

Rotting my gut drinking too much coffee, breaking my back with too much shoveling snow, and softening my brain with too much American Idol, for god's sake.  (Actually, that show makes me laugh, which extends one's life I've read, so I guess that's good thing.) 

prouboy

It was my notion to keep it dry and cut the bulk...dry TP keeps the ladies happy. I never thought keeping the ladies happy was anal, but I do know it is smart. I have also considered stringing  a small silnylon fly over the GB for those rain days...when Mamas happy everyone's happy. Just Sayin'

True enough; a call for clarity....it is what I do for the extra rolls and then once opened then into the biff bag which is a ziplock in a stuff sack with a bottle of handle sanitizer. 

Puckster wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 3:09pm:


So, pretend we're all sittin' around a campfire after a good day of fishing.  Slight breeze, no clouds, a good drink or three, and the discussion turns to TP and all things anal.  Then prouby remarks...if you get my drift....

I pause, smell something...something really nasty...Geez, prouby!!  We all move upwind...        

I use a scrubee which doesn't have any sponge component.  I think the sponge is where the bacteria really thrive.  An all plastic scrubbee is hard to find, but I finally found some at Cub Grocery Store.

Plus as mentioned, earlier, just boil the scrubbee and that will kill all the bacteria.

Westwood