At the world Dry Toilet Summit, only sanity gets flushed

Union Leader ^ | 1/19/04 | MICHAEL FUMENTO

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I came here to snicker, but I see this is a serious topic.

Ahem... I remember the outhouses, miserable experience using them when it is below zero, I tell you!!!

[B4Ranch]

These are "indoor outhouses that sell for anything from four to eight times what a flush toilet at Home Depot or Sears goes for."

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Then I would have thought an indoor replacement for the outdoor outhouse would have been an improvement!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Interesting!

[mewzilla]

Outhouses! Eeeek! Don't ever admit to using an outhouse! You'll have CAIR on your back. Remember this FR thread?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I missed that thread, wow. I liked your link:

Outhouses Tour of America

[SamAdams76]

"No matter what I tried over the years there were always times when one could not lift the lid without several flies lifting off and heading for the kitchen," wrote Dave Keenan. "The flies were of two main kinds, the tiny drosophila or fruit fly and some larger wasp-like black flies."

You've got to be kidding me!

No thank you! I'll stick with my flush toilets.

A friend of mine who is a plumber tells me there's a very lucrative black-market for the pre Al-Gore toilets that use more than two and a half-gallons of water to flush. Those were the days! When you could flush the toilet just one time and see everything go down all at once. With these "water-saving" toilets, you have to either flush in stages or get out that plunger. Either way, you waste far more water than with the old toilets.

(No comment on whether or not I procured one of these "black-market pre-Algore" toilets for myself!)

The following, you can file under "More-information-than-I-need-to-know":

Since going on a whole food, low-carb diet, I can get everything down in one flush even with the Algore toilets. It doesn't smell that bad either. All that processed food that I used to eat...man, did I stink up the place back in those days.

[gcruse]

Don't permit dry toilets.  It's only a ploy to introduce dry sex to the west.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Dry Sex -=--- Well!

Those African's are strange.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Actually that is quite a problem. Human excrement (see Bill Clinton) contains pathogens such as e-coli bacteria which can be transmitted via untreated or improperly treated waste and so called "heavy metals" like mercury, which are particularly prevalent in heavy industrial cities.

There are several methodologies for creating a safe fertilizer but the verdict is still open, I understand.

regards,