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
PEE off the back porch-—cheaper.
Some states are already allowing “water treatment sludge” to be used as fertilizer on fields for food & pasture.
Already, there are tests showing various legal prescription & illegal drugs are showing up in the sludge & hence, into the product of the fields it was used on.
Just what we all need-—MILK from cows fed such products & Fentanyl & other stuff getting into the food supply we depend on.
Do not eat yellow snow.
Since the dawn of time isn't temporary, but standing to urinate as God intended is not madness either.
Pee on the seat
A Biologist, clearly.
Woke whores belong in hell.
Woke whores belong in hell.
Close down Guinness: Problem solved.
I’m not Irish, but I had to actually train myself to pee laying down. Last year I had surgery, and the first two or three days, I had a catheter. Wow, I thought, this is great! At least I don’t have to sit up to pee in a bottle, which would require calling a nurse to help me get up and sit on the side of the bed.
Soon after that, they removed the catheter.
First I peed at the side of the bed. Ok.
They were pumping so much fluid into me, I was calling for someone to help me sit up it seemed like every 45 minutes.
This was during COVID, and they were shorthanded, so it would sometimes take a while, leaving me with an almost bursting bladder. SO, I grabbed the bottle and TRAINED myself to pee laying down.
I used to do it as a baby, I guess after 65+ years, I forgot🙂.
I stand with men, who stand to pee.
https://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2014/01/use-urine-to-make-gunpowder-yes-you-can/ (**prepper link!)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/the-incredible-story-of-how-large-quantities-of-nuns-urine-made-fertility-drugs-possible/
https://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-may-have-caused-parasitic-worm-epidemic-north-korea-making-farmers-714571
OK, I’ll just pee in the sink.
Why not just have a stand up waterless urinal next to the sit down loo? The French have a bidet next to the loo already it’s like half a meter of pvc pipe to connect the new stand up urinal to the pipe for the sit down easy peasy.
It puts a strain of the urethra tube which is really kind of narrow and standing allows the muscles to not have to strain so hard.
Of course, that wouldn't emasculate, so therefore the Leftist Loons could never even conceive of the notion.
When a man takes over house-cleaning responsibilities, as I have done, you soon appreciate the advantages of sitting down, however many years previously you have stood and delivered.
The men’s urinal still proves problematic for women in relation to women’s garmets and how to accomodate.
I once had a girlfriend who, when she had enough beer - which was often, could drop her jeans, bender over from her waist and pee backwards. She would not get a drop on herself or her clothing. Saw her do it more than once. She had great muscle control, oh yeah! She was on the fun but crazy part of the scale. Laz would have been tickled with her, 38 DD and could play a guitar like Rory Gallagher. She aas also a red-headed spitfire. Now I like redheads but every one if ever dated was eventually more trouble than a burlap bag full of feral cats. I admire any man that can co-exist with a redhead. Takes special talent. A peculiar skill.
Not directly on the plants. It harms them
I do ask my husband to pee at the edge of the garden area to deter the bunnies.
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