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Men of Ireland: Will you sit down to pee for the good of the planet?
Irish Times ^ | Catherine Cleary

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: toilet; urinal
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To: Right Wing Vegan

A urinal already can route per where it’s needed.

This is stupid.


41 posted on 05/08/2022 4:20:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Reminded me of Sam Kinnison’s most excellent presentation about hungry folk living and procreating in the desert. Must revisit it.


42 posted on 05/08/2022 4:21:01 PM PDT by mcshot (Awe shucks and a whole lot more!)
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To: mcshot

SAY IT.


43 posted on 05/08/2022 4:22:18 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: kaktuskid

We do have a shortage of urea for fertilizer. I’m use a tomato plant would love a nitrogen-rich shower.


44 posted on 05/08/2022 4:26:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Uh, NO!


45 posted on 05/08/2022 4:29:39 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The world is getting stupider and stupider.


46 posted on 05/08/2022 4:29:40 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

…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…


47 posted on 05/08/2022 4:30:53 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This is just garbage. Written by a commie twat who hates men.

It is, well and truly, no more complicated than that.


48 posted on 05/08/2022 4:32:49 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

It’s not about the environment. It’s to turn men into she-men.


49 posted on 05/08/2022 4:34:51 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Government, when allowed to expand, always ends up using its power, and our $, to protect its power.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If this saves just one dirty floor, it is worth it!
Sincerely,
Mark’s wife


50 posted on 05/08/2022 4:38:28 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Ok, I'll do it their way:


51 posted on 05/08/2022 4:38:41 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: gitmo

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.


52 posted on 05/08/2022 4:40:59 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Piss on you Catherine.


53 posted on 05/08/2022 4:41:04 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: Right Wing Vegan; metmom; Pete from Shawnee Mission; Pollard

Finally! A ‘solution’ to the current fertilizer crisis!

*SMIRK*


54 posted on 05/08/2022 4:58:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

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.


55 posted on 05/08/2022 5:02:57 PM PDT by rexthecat
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To: Right Wing Vegan

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.


56 posted on 05/08/2022 5:11:12 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

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.


57 posted on 05/08/2022 5:12:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: skeeter; All

“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!


58 posted on 05/08/2022 5:18:06 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan; Diana in Wisconsin

Do we really want or need all those drug metabolites & hormones in our fertilizer?


59 posted on 05/08/2022 5:24:28 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: lightman

Ich bin ein stehspreckler.


60 posted on 05/08/2022 5:24:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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