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
A urinal already can route per where it’s needed.
This is stupid.
Reminded me of Sam Kinnison’s most excellent presentation about hungry folk living and procreating in the desert. Must revisit it.
SAY IT.
We do have a shortage of urea for fertilizer. I’m use a tomato plant would love a nitrogen-rich shower.
Uh, NO!
The world is getting stupider and stupider.
…Well, now Irish men forget the past
Whack fol the diddle o the die do day
And think of the day that’s coming fast
Whack fol the diddle o the die do day
When we shall all be civilized
Neat and clean and well advised
Oh, won’t mother England be surprised?
Whack fol the diddle o the die do day…
This is just garbage. Written by a commie twat who hates men.
It is, well and truly, no more complicated than that.
It’s not about the environment. It’s to turn men into she-men.
If this saves just one dirty floor, it is worth it!
Sincerely,
Mark’s wife
I remember almost nothing from humanities courses in college. But I do recall reading something about how Freud thought men were superior ‘cause in cave man days they discovered they could piss on the campfire without getting singed.
Try that one, sitters.
One more recollection from college (where I spent more time than in reading humanities textbooks):
A local pub had an outdoor sports theme. The restroom doors each had a pic of a hunting dog on it. Ladies Room: Setters; Mens Room: Pointers.
Piss on you Catherine.
Finally! A ‘solution’ to the current fertilizer crisis!
*SMIRK*
Just pee on the wall. They’ll get tired of cleaning it up and will quickly switch to the old urinals. It’s called civil disobedience and it should work really well.
Not so bad to turn it into fertilizer ... but beware when they want to go the “toilet to sippy cup” route. A government official will run the program and will not be responsible for any failures that poison the people or contaminate the system... just think of Fauci or one of his ilk running the program.
As an Irishman, I can say this...we do pee sitting down...and laying down....and while holding onto a wall...just about any position as we fall down drunk, really.
“When you boil it all down, nothing bothers feminists more than a man’s ability to stand while peeing.”
FemiNazis need a little time in the Army. They’ll learn to pee standing up, sitting down, in the mud, in the rain and in a 6 seat open-bay bathroom.
The Army didn’t make me a Feminist; it made me One Of The Guys! Which, I think , they’re trying to achieve, aren’t they? Never understood it. Just do your JOB, then ‘sit down’ and shut up. ;)
Perspective in ALL things, Ladies!
Do we really want or need all those drug metabolites & hormones in our fertilizer?
Ich bin ein stehspreckler.
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