Our friends over at MythBusters did an episode on this.
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Yeah, always thought the blue ice theory improbable. We'd have seen more evidence "on the ground."
The longest ever flight used a much simpler toilet
TL;DR:
Bathroom duties were handled with a folding camp toilet and plastic bags, which were then deposited over uninhabited areas of the desert.
Typical humans
"Let's find the most pristine untouched place on earth.... And dump plastic and shit all over it."
If you're interested in shit in pristine untouched places, guess what Apollo astronauts did with their shit on the moon?