Posted on 10/29/2013 3:38:04 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Commission will adopt criteria next week on delivering an Ecolabel to toilets and urinals, EurActiv has learned. The decision comes after years of efforts by experts working for the European Commission’s environment directorate, as well as “stakeholders” studying “user behavior” and “best practices”. …
Work on developing an EU standard for toilets has started in January 2011, according documents of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. A first Ad-Hoc Working Group meeting was held in Brussels on October 2011, with the second such meeting held in the attractive city of Seville, Spain, in June 2012. …
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What a bunch of crap.
Anyone else run into the waterless urinals? Not making a splash in my neck of the woods.
Yeah, we call 'em trees.
This is why our ancestors left that place...
Ha. Well, we don’t grow trees in our sports arenas restrooms, yet. I guess we aren’t a bunch of wood huggers after all.
I just ripped out the “water saver” plug on a new shower head.
I through it in the trash with the “Obama” bulb that burnt out in less than a year.
FU EPA.
I pay for the damn water. I will use it fill my pond if I want to.
FU OB
It was that kind of day.
Europe has a rainy, maritime climate, with plenty of water. Can't the bureaucrats work on some real problem?
Yep...And fence posts, just be careful if there's a single strand of wire.
The provinces of the EUSSR still have individual seats at the UN and individual Olympic teams for some reason
If it’s yellow; it’s mellow!
If it’s brown; flush it down!
Polishing the turd.
I mean really, this is a Saturday Night Live skit, right?
Maryland has a flush tax. Just sayin’.
Held at Flushing Meadows no doubt.
I wonder what Al Bundy would say about this?
I guess the regulations will be about as successful as the economy flush toilets that take 2 - 3 flushes to do what the old toilets did in one flush...: )
The only insert available as a replacement was a “water Saver” I drilled the insert out. I had better things to do than stand waiting for my dog’s water bowl to fill.
“Because of EU rules, this toilet is not to be flushed until full.”
Wait until all toilets and their tank sizes have to be registered and then wired so the EU can keep track of its use.
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