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Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« on: November 21, 2008, 07:58:04 AM »
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Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day

AS the world celebrates World Toilet Day today, sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing dunny to save water and provide fertilizer for crops.

Leading health advocates have called for the use of "dry" toilets which separate urine from faeces and remove the need to flush.

Speaking at the recent World Toilet Summit in Macau, World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sims said the concept of the flushing toilet was unsustainable.

Mr Sims said a culture where people flushed their loos but disregarded the thousands of litres of wasted drinking water each year was one of sanitation's greatest challenges.

"This 'flush and forget' attitude creates a new problem which we have to revisit," he said.

There have already been calls by Australian experts to reduce the amount of water wasted through toilet flushing with a proposed new toilet tax.


That's a really cr*ppy idea.   :thatsright:

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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2008, 08:08:17 AM »
Hot and cold running dysentery!  What a great idea!
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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2008, 08:34:46 AM »
I'm just flushed with excitement!


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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2008, 09:00:20 AM »
This pipe dream really plunges into idiocy.  :whatever:
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2008, 10:19:32 AM »
Really shitty idea.
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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2008, 10:44:14 AM »
This is a real sewer spot for me. 



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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2008, 11:02:16 AM »
Why don't they just re-instate the use of outhouses?? These ****ing Eco-Idiots are going to send us back to the stone age.
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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2008, 11:08:45 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 21, 2008, 11:02:16 AM
Why don't they just re-instate the use of outhouses?? These ****ing Eco-Idiots are going to send us back to the stone age.

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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2008, 11:28:22 AM »
Quote from: Thor on November 21, 2008, 11:02:16 AM
Why don't they just re-instate the use of outhouses?? These ******* Eco-Idiots are going to send us back to the stone age.

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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2008, 01:16:54 PM »
They can get together with Sheryl Crow and be the Toilet Nazis.
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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2008, 02:25:09 PM »
Isn't one of the Rockefeller heiresses, some broad who lives in Boston, into some sort of "Swedish" commode that doesn't use water?

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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2008, 05:09:50 PM »
I was somewhere in CT a few months ago - I think it was a mall - and the urinals didn't have any plumbing, no water at all just a bigger "mint."  I expected it to smell but it didn't.



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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2008, 05:16:03 PM »
Quote from: RightCoast on November 21, 2008, 05:09:50 PM
I was somewhere in CT a few months ago - I think it was a mall - and the urinals didn't have any plumbing, no water at all just a bigger "mint."  I expected it to smell but it didn't.
Waterless urnials aren't really new.

http://www.waterless.com/how.php

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Re: Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2008, 06:49:41 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on November 21, 2008, 05:16:03 PM
Waterless urnials aren't really new.

http://www.waterless.com/how.php



Never said it was new, they where the first ones I had ever seen.
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