I’m finding that the habits I’ve developed for food handlingand dishwashing in decades of camping and backpacking in bear country are servingme well with our RPod. That and living with a septic tank at our house (although it's a lot less "sensitive"). I wipefood off dishes and utensils before putting them in the dish pan. This makes moreefficient  use of soap and water too ofcourse. I also readily use paper plates when it’s obvious that I’ll be using alot of paper (to wipe dishes) and might as well save the water, soap and energy toboth heat the water and pump it. In campgrounds there is usually a place todump dish water. With dispersed camping, in most of our areas it’s completelyacceptable both regulations-wise and environmentally to dump dishwater on theground. I do this well away from where we’re sleeping and also using biodegradable(in soil) soap; and well away from any water sources. I never dump food scrapsor greasy/oily anything, anywhere but proper disposal (which does not includethe RPod’s black tank). And never on the ground even in really remotelocations. To me that is both littering and feeding wildlife, neither of whichI want to do. I’ve even been known to skim dishwater with a cotton cloth orpaper tower in the “just to be really sure” department. As a side note, I would also never empty our gray water tank on the ground on public lands; besides being against most regs it's completely unnecessary. There's a distinction between dumping a small amount of dishwashing water - as one does when backpacking for example - and an entire tank. In campgrounds it’sobviously rude at best to dump water on the ground so if there’s no designatedplace for that, I dump it in the RPod toilet so it goes to the black watertank. Even though I’mserious about the topic, it’s not a burden or in any way difficult to do any ofthis and I do it all very light-heartedly as part of our camping experience. Also - many people tout dumping dishwater and/or food scraps intheir campfire pit. I recommend against it since it attracts wildlife into yourcampsite (which will be someone else's campsite after "you" leave). Hope this helps!