[Olog-hai]

“Water-efficent terlets help make smellier homes that attract more flies and other vermin” . . .

Where can you find a high-tank terlet with a loud flush anymore?

[thecodont]

Dry toilets probably aren’t for everybody. “The ‘yuk’ factor is definitely there,” but that reaction is largely a cultural bias, Pabich said.

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.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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.

[Adams]

Toto. Great band. Great dog. Amazing toilet.

[Flick Lives]

"We have the biggest supply on the continent, but it doesn’t mean that it’s going to be there forever – and especially with global climate change and all this evaporation and little precipitation that could build the water back up. So we need to conserve.” Studies show that Great Lakes water levels are dropping toward record lows.

Yes, because as everyone knows, once water is flushed down a toilet, it's gone! *sheesh*

[Thrownatbirth]

she collected waste from participants for a three- month period

Nan Klehm would be a hit on one of those Euro fetish websites.

[LongWayHome]

I picked up 2 big old 1970s 5 gallon flushers at the local old parts place & put some new guts in them & they flush anything. They are in excellent shape. I will never replace them.

[BuffaloJack]

My one toilet is over 60 years old, uses 3 gallons per flush and the only thing I’ve ever had to do is replace the rubber seals every 10 or 15 years or so when they harden up. I like it and it will handle anything that gets into the bowl from Mr. Stinky to the occasional diaper. I also have one of those water efficient ones in my other bathroom and I fail to see the economy of flushing 3 or 4 times to clear the bowl.

[headstamp 2]

“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. “

Yeah, just throw it out a window like in the middle ages.

[43north]

I love these kinds of threads. They illustrate the absolute insanity of the libtard goobermint butt smoochers.

I have two 1.6 gallon toilets and one 3 gallon. You guessed it - after my morning “Hallelujah!” in one of the tiny water toilets it requires two flushes to send it on the way to the septic. The 3 gallon toilet requires one flush every time. Do the math.

I have a 525 ft. deep well that never runs dry. Why should I care about water conservation?

[Husker24]

I wonder if a civilian can get ahold of one of those industrial Walmart toilets, those things can suck the sh!t right out of you.

[TigersEye]

Due to the shallow grade of the main sewer pipe to the street connection and the low-flow toilet already required when the house was built in 1985 it takes 2-3 flushes to do the job.

Composting toilets are allowable here now (weren't in '85) but they can't be dry. They are required by law to use water. They also have to be certified to comply with "all laws, rules and regulations." I assume that means "all" county, state and feral "laws, rules and regulations."

You eco-nuts can't have big government and freedom of choice particularly low impact technologies. Suck it up, cupcakes, you wanted Big Brother so now you have to file a $100 Environmental Impact Statement every time you wipe your sorry tree hugging butts with your one square of government approved toilet paper.

[DemforBush]

“can begin as little more than a bucket filled with a layer of a carbon-rich material such as dry leaves, sawdust or newspaper.”

Somehow, I just can’t picture my late father heading for his throne with the Sunday papers under one arm and a bucket full of leaves in the other.

I mean seriously, wouldn’t it be even simpler to just go behind a tree in the back yard?

[freekitty]

Yep, even though you have to stand there with a plunger and the phone number of the plumber on speed dial.

[RightField]

So, are we or are we not to rinse out recyclable cans and glass jars?

Not that I recycle now . . . I finally moved out of California

[Smokin' Joe]

The cheat sheet prescribes other improvements such as water-efficient washing machines and dishwashers.

I had a water efficient washing machine. It did not get the clothes clean, malfunctioned frequently, and ate clothes. Never again.

Give me an old top loading machine without a computer in it. They work.