"BAAAAA-WOOOOOSH.....now that's a MAN'S flush, Bud."
Posted on 12/06/2012 7:20:37 PM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
ALL water is recycled. It gets taken from the environment, used, returned to the environment, evaporated, and returned as rain. It’s been doing this for billions of years. No amount of toilet conservation will ever change this. It is the ultimate in “sustainability”. These people are absolutely nuts.
“After a visit to the dry toilet, users cover their wastes with a new layer of carbon- rich material. Once the bucket is full, the contents can be dumped out and composted.”
Hopefully they can recycle their OCD meds properly by growing their own “organic” zucchini.
It's ugly as heck, and hard to keep clean and working. I make parts to keep it working.
I'll die before I give it up.
/johnny
True enough you can run a sewer system with just salt water, but you need special equipment to handle it ~
“cover their wastes with a new layer of carbon- rich material. Once the bucket is full, the contents can be dumped out and composted.”
This is ridiculous. All this is is re-hashing the old days.
Which proves beyond doubt all these EnviroNAZIs want is to punt us back to the stone age. Or Moslem society, whichever.
"BAAAAA-WOOOOOSH.....now that's a MAN'S flush, Bud."
Now we will require every resident to treat his own sewage in his back yard (or front yard if he doesn't have a back yard), without using water.
What could possibly go wrong?
Theoretically they save water. Realistically I have to flush mine sometimes as many as four times to get just one square of toilet paper to go down the drain.
I was speaking of the low flow variety. Forgot to mention that. I wouldn’t even think of using a no flow dry one.
Toilets from before 1980 can use up to 7 gallons of water per flush, but federal regulations require that new toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush. Simply by replacing old toilets, people can dramatically reduce their water consumption”
Barbra Streisand. Swaying the fools out there saying “7 gal” which is OLD toilets. My parents have 3-gal toilets, and lo and behold to this day 40 years later they STILL flush even gigantic loads of (x) and toilet paper in 1 flush.
Meanwhile we have to constantly have our plunger at the ready for all 4 of our “eco” toilets (3 brands, 2 types). Even when we don’t use that we need to flush almost always 2x for just a bit of TP.
That’s 3 gal vs. 3.2 gal per “visit”.
Looks that way. They won't be happy until everyone else is living in the 7th century. I suspect that this is an aspect of outcome-based education... that these folks are convinced that it's a zero-sum world. Therefore, in order for these elitists to live in their accustomed and deserved luxury (because they care), the rest of the planet must squat over a hole and wipe with leaves and rocks.
How absolutely fitting that something churned out by Medill would pertain to the crapper.
The irony is that trains and planes have “no-water” toilets which are VERY powerful. However, I don’t know just how much “energy” we “waste” making that work OK. Kind of like the damnable asshats who say all we need to do for our lo-flows of 1.6 is get an electric assist!
You can’t have it both ways.
Screw them!!!
I still use 30 year old toilets that work with the first flush, no matter what!!!
What sort of culture is this woman espousing?
I rather like the culture that gave me a flush toilet and reliable potable water.
This woman wants "dry toilets" for everybody and expects that all users will assiduously compost their waste in such a way that all microbes will be destroyed. Not a chance. People can't even be expected to stay off the phone or keep from reading a term paper when driving (yeah, I saw this on my way home this evening!) so how can they be expected to take care of their own waste in such a way that it doesn't jeopardize local health? People can't see beyond the backlit screen of the smartphone in front of their noses, you think they care about an amoebic menace lurking in local topsoil courtesy of the human body?
There was a nice paper published about 20 years ago about SF Bay Area groundwater. Think about how groundwater is a real resource. Don't jeopardize it.
Just dig a hole for an outhouse in the back yard!
when full move it over to a new hole a few feet away! No water involved.
I started life using one of those and was afraid I would fall in the big hole. My uncle got bit on his thingydo by a spider in one.
I was rather Texas with that... wasn't I?
/johnny
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