Posted on 05/08/2022 3:41:42 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Urine diversion could be the future of loos. Posh Swiss toilet manufacturer Laufen has a toilet called Save. You use it as you would any other toilet, with one gender caveat. Before the flush, the urine runs down the front of the gleaming ceramic bowl to be diverted to a separate pipe. So men and boys have to sit down to pee. A greener loo with less mess. What’s not to love? Urine diversion is being trialled around the world. Sanitation codes are being rewritten to turn a pollutant into a resource.
Environmental consultant Feidhlim Harty ends his book Septic Tank Options and Alternatives with the hope for a future when “sewage pollution of our groundwater, rivers and streams is a distant memory of a temporary madness.” Dry toilets, or compost loos, could keep so much pollution out of our water system. But they are niche. Waste-water treatment consultant Ollan Herr’s bar is that the in-laws should be comfortable using the toilet. Regular-looking loos that do more are coming to modern building design. Fertiliser
The win-win is the harvesting of human waste for use as fertiliser. Urine is a rich source of nitrogen and modern systems could separate and dry or concentrate it for removal. Solid waste also has potential. Night soil, humanure or whatever you want to call it is a resource. Thames Water produces biosolids from wastewater treatment and sells it to farmers in England. “The war in Ukraine is bringing into focus the growing threat of a possible future food supply crisis,” Herr says. Phosphorus is a dwindling non-renewable resource. The main deposits are in Morocco, China, the US and Russia.
Eco sewage experts such as Harty and Herr design systems that transform human waste from a problem into a solution. Constructed wetlands, reed-bed systems and willow can use waste to produce coppiced willow for fuel, which captures the nutrients leaving nothing to run off. Throw in the looming fertiliser crisis when, as Herr puts it, “mankind is still wasting so much of the nitrogen and phosphorus from domestic and municipal wastewater”. Something has to change. Flower-growing
Herr sells an Aquatron system which separates and stores the urine. One of the options incorporates flower-growing into his system. Irish sanitation regulations need to recognise natural systems which can help resolve pollution problems and improve food security.
The WHO has published guidelines for the safe use of human waste and grey water in agriculture. These are changes that could leave us feeling flush.
www.wetlandsystems.ie; www.herr.ie
Catherine Cleary is co-founder of Pocket Forests
I don’t think anything good has ever come from the environmentalist religion.
That would go well with the Obama toilet paper.
Zappa had a song about a guy who saved his p**s up in a 50 gallon drum, didn’t he?
That can replace the Jane Fonda urinal target when she kicks the bucket.
Huh?
This does not sound like anything any human, male or female could use properly.
Yeah? Fk that. Piss like a man or piss in the sink.
Another reason why people immigratsd to America in the 19th century. Now where do we go? We have to fight.
Will there be one in pink for all the women who currently stand to pee???
And I’m sure the snooty elites who can afford this will transform their property and yards in to sewer runoff to “save the planet” rather then what the domesticated world does.
Does not translate into ‘Pre and post prostate’ but looks the same.
1 Sam 25:34
For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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So according to King David, the definition of a man is the ability to piss against a wall.
We recently installed a new hand held shower head. It had one of those “green water saver” bs thingies on it to restrict flow. If we were to shower with it in, the shower would take twice as long. How’s that “saving” anything?
It’s been removed and showers are now quicker, more punishing and amazing!
Effffffff the greenies
For those Wymym who have a major issue,
Pack one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Urination-Antimicrobial-Portable-Activities-Silicone/dp/B003BEDUS6
A FUD is the answer to Mother Nature’s call.
And suddenly you realize why the globalists decided to disrupt the world’s fertilizer supply.
Make a shortage to drive the public to your solution.
That’s why unisex bathrooms are stupid. You need one for the ladies so they can sit. One for the guys so they can stand.
When a man sits to pee, it usually creates a mess.
That’s why we stand.
Are they going to have cameras to make sure men sit down?
I started to leave a comment on ‘and then pull it back’ only to discover it was about putting the lid back up. My comment was about....forgot
Space station style recycling?
I’ve seen women standing to pee; it’s just that their stream goes down, rather than out. And, they don’t shake out the last full measure.
I would think all the woke people with penises in Ireland already sit when they pee.
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