Flush Toilets Called 'Environmental Disaster'

CNSNews.com ^ | 6/12/03 | Marc Morano

[Bella_Bru]

The flush toilets mandated by the govt are a disaster. The mandated 1.6 gallon flush couldn't flush a rat turd down the toilet.

Most people say they need to flush their "low flush, envrio friendly" toilets more times each trip than they had to with the old 5 gallon standard. Seems that those low flush beauties might not be doing the job, if you get my meaning.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Speaking of "scat," could small household pets get themselves trapped in this apparatus?

[libertylover]

Proponents of dry toilets, set to convene at the first annual international Dry Toilet 2003 conference

Now here's a group of people with waaaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.

[JudgemAll]

This sounds like a bunch of crap to me.

Of course, that's the whole point, no toilets, eat crap.

1000s of years of progress in hygiene and home and community environment must be destroyed for the sake of making man participate in the natural selection process, leaving with his own feces.

If the environment cannot be submited to adaptation to man, man must be an animal while the ecoterrorists will enjoy walking naked.

[JudgemAll]

Dry toilets? Euuh, they have these in Europe and the toxic fumes coming out are a health hazard. What was that, last month these kids in Kenya actually died in a latrine because of the fumes.

[neb52]

If I may share a story from my Boy Scout council here in Fort Worth, TX. At one of our main camps that is used for summer camps, we have latrines in each camp. These latrines are simply a big hole in the ground with thick concrete walls(so not to harm the water table) and a wooden shelter on top. Well these are honky dory for us boy scouts, but with parents night and with the increase number of women that now participate in the troops, we have flush toliets at the camp in various places. Of course the toliets that were installed are the 1.6gallon tanks. We had to put signs on the tanks of the toliets that read please hold handle down for ten seconds when flushing. This is due to that the kids not wanting to use the latrines anymore, would flush the toliets just like the 5gallon tanks back at home. Causing the toliets to clog up and little boys usually will not tell anybody about it. So more boys use it and use it, thus by the end of the week you have a toliet filled(if not over flowing) of excrement. Since the 1.6gal does not provide enough water, we found that this is remeded by holding the handle for at least ten seconds to allow enough water to flow through. Thus eliminating the whole purpose of the 1.6gal toliets.

We have not installed anymore flushing toliets in years, since we cannot get ahold of the 5gal toliets anymore. But the problem is that everybody wants the flushing toliets instead of the latrines.

At Big Bend National Park they have these dry toliets( I assume they are the same as is in this article) that is like a latrine, but has a solar panel that dries the box out and then a helicopter picks it up to be dumped out somewhere. This is great for outdoor places, but at home give me a break. I image this article is only the begining. you know they have been trying to get us to cut down on the number of showers to save water, this way we can be like the more sophisticated and highly cultured FRENCH!!!!

[neb52]

Oh, so if we are suppose to dump these dry toliets out, does this mean we will be bringing the piss boy back from Mel Brooks' History of the World.

"Oh Piss Boy!"

[germanicus]

A waterless dry toilet, which generally costs about $2,000

Why is it whenever modern technology is removed from something, the price goes up? This dry toilet will be an ecological disaster when everyone figures out that storm sewers are a great place to dump their waste.

[LRS]

It's so clever. I jump in through the hole in the top.

"> I scratch all I want and the litter stays in. And oh... it's so private!

"> I jump out. The built-in tracking mat cleans my paws. How helpful!

And I'm off! I can't smell anything, can you?

[LadyDoc]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MF9T/muttcatscom/102-2122935-3476953

should solve the problem.

Except it's a bit small for my tush...

[BlueLancer]

""Oh Piss Boy!"

"Oui, m'seur?"
Yes, and lots of it.

[RogueIsland]

The essay, written by Dave Keenan, details his problems with insects and odors that his dry toilet produced in his home.

Ummm, there's a reason that outhouses were built outside the home, dude.

[RushLake]

Maybe thee environmentalists can start an organization composed of volunteers from their ranks to do the emptying. It shouldn't really bother them, they are used to shoveling bulls... um, nevermind.

Spot on as usual, the envirostalinists need to lead the way. In Michigan, Governor Jenny Mulhern has formed a committee to pontificate to the rest of us on the evils of "urban sprawl". The group includes former RINO governor Bill Milliken and other lefties. They want us all to move back to Detroit, Flint, and other decayed crime ridden corrupt cities. I wrote a letter to the leftist Detroit News suggesting that Mulhern, Milliken et al lead the way back to Detroit as an example to the rest of us. The News didn't print it of course.

[judicial meanz]

I really wonder if any of these idiots involved in this anti-flush toilet movement ever grew up in a home without indoor plumbing? Fighting snakes on the "path", freezing your can off on cold nights, and all the other assorted hassles involved.

If not, maybe they should spend a week or two with chamber pots and outhouses just to get some perspective.

I like my flush toilet. I earned it. I dont care how many gallons of water it wastes, I am keeping it. I wish it used a lot more water, like the older ones they were successful in banning.

Enough of these liberals. I cant even use the bathroom in peace!

[wireplay]

The Toto SuperMax low-flow toilets are great and really work. They cost around $350 each and were recommended by my plumber. Not a single problem yet since we replaced our original low-flows with these bad boys.

You can also modify the ones at the camp to get higher flow rates. Use a ping pong ball or a bobber and tie it to the rubber thing that controls the water flow. It will cause a lot more water to come through. Adjust as necessary.

[Thebaddog]

I used one of those solar dumpers out west on a hike, and you have never smelled a smell like that thing. Send the environuts to that outhouse and lock the door behind them.

[jimt]

Proponents of dry toilets, set to convene at the first annual international Dry Toilet 2003 conference in Tampere, Finland, August 20-23, warn of "environmental disaster" if developing nations aspire to flush toilets so prevalent in the industrialized world.

Anybody know who pays for this idiocy? "Dry Toilet 2003"?

[jammer]

Detroit is not a city. It's a third world country.

[Trueblackman]

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[Tijeras_Slim]

If toilets are banned, what will my dogs frink out of? :-D