Flush Toilets Called 'Environmental Disaster'

CNSNews.com ^ | 6/12/03 | Marc Morano

[openotherend]

Environmental wackos flow down hill. Payday is Friday. I think I've got it.

[FourPeas]

first annual international Dry Toilet 2003 conference

I think we need a logo contest for this to help them out with their t-shirt design.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"When I move I'm going to the Home Depot and buying a couple of new toilets and taking my old trusty 5 gallon flushers with me."

Buy the power flusher toilets. They do use a lot less water, but still work because they use air pressure. My cousin has had one for years, and my aunt just bought one. They aren't much more expensive that the regular toilets either.

[FourPeas]

Here are the keynote speakers at the conference and the title of their addresses:

Kaarin Taipale, Finland: "What is the colour of sustainable development"

Jan-Olof Drangert, Sweden: "A history of mental views on the re-use of human-rerived nutrients" The last part of the abstract states: The last part of the paper will focus on views among residents to eating food produced with the help of human-derived fertilisers.

Ron Sawyer, Mexico: "Sanitation as if it really mattered: Getting toilets out of the (water) closet and into the loop"

Martin Oldenburg, Germany: "Toilets for the re-use of natural resources - Examples and Applications"

[Straight Vermonter]

Here in vermont there are a lot of back to earth types including those with no electricity at all in their homes. Now if that is their choice that is fine I don't have a problem at all but I can see the out cry against toilets bginning.

We were house shopping a while back and found what looked like a very nice home at considerably under market value. After speaking to the home owner we learned it was because there were no conventional toilets in the home. The toilets dumped into a big vat in the basement which had to be shoveled out from time to time. Where it was to be shoveled to, I had no idea.

[IFly4Him]

This is series... I'm off to flush the toilet...

[FrankR]

Isn't it funny how when these tree-huggers have something to SELL, all of a sudden they can find numerous 'ENVIRONMENTAL' fault with successful methods that have been used for hundreds of years?

They obviously don't remember the stench, flies, and other problems with OUTDOOR TOILETS...or having to go out and empty the "slop jar" at 8am when it's -10 degrees outside.

This guy is trying to get attention, and get the water toilet outlawed (a la Freon) so he can sell his product (a la new Freon).

This will be about as popular as "NEW Coke" was.

[Mixed Grill]

> "Thirteen percent of Africans have a sewage
> connection; that is, a flushing toilet leading to a
> sewage system, while for North America, the figure
> is 100 percent and Europe 92 percent," said Dingle.

1) Where's the missing 8% in Europe? France? Just go on the sidewalk, I guess.

2) I giggle like a schoolgirl that someone named "dingle" is talking about topics scatological.

[RightOnline]

"...the first annual international Dry Toilet 2003 conference in Tampere, Finland..."

...........now there's a hoppin' conference that's a "don't miss"....................put on yer party hats, boys....................

[ChicagoGuy]

If they outlaw toilets, only outlaws will have toilets.


If they wanna outlaw flush toilets, they're gonna have to pry mine from my cold, dead butt.

[Nick Danger]

Flush Toilets Called 'Environmental Disaster'

What is the deal with CNS? I thought they were on our side. How come we get the standard liberal headline, where the environmentalist claim receives top billing?

Tree Huggers Advocate Disease, Foul Smells for Third World. That's much better.

[buccaneer81]

[rattrap]

they can pry my flush handle from my cold dead hands

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

The largest water uses in a home are toilet flushing and clothes washing. I can't understand why homes are not built with a 10-20 gallon water storage tank with overflow valve in the attic. The water pump in a washing machine could be used to pump water from the washer to the storage tank, where it is then piped back down to fill the flush toilets, so that the wash water is used twice. Combine this with a toilet that has a divided two-flush tank, 1.5 gallons for #1 and 3-4 gallons for #2.

[Ole Okie]

Yep, bring back the two- and three-holers and the slop jars under every bed (for those cold winter nights).

And the typhoid and cholera and other diseases attendant thereon.

Or just go out in the cornfield. Now that's DRY.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If you want a good toilet that meets current standards, try Toto. They go for about $400, but they work great.

[The Red Zone]

This is called a greywater system. It doesn't work very well unless the greywater is disinfected (the germies clog up the tanks and valves but good).

[laredo44]

re-use of natural resources

What? Water may be the most reusable resource we have.

[finnman69]

Proponents of dry toilets, set to convene at the first annual international Dry Toilet 2003 conference in Tampere, Finland, August 20-23, warn of "environmental disaster" if developing nations aspire to flush toilets so prevalent in the industrialized world.

Oh man..more stuff that makes me embarassed to be a Finn.

[mewzilla]

Sounds like they mean composting toilets, which would be great for cabins or boats. But in a home? When you can have high volume use? Not to mention incidents of diarrhea and vomiting. These guys are nuts.