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
More elites trying to find new ways to gender bend, as usual.
(Catherine Cleary is co-founder of Pocket Forests)
How Global Citizen of her.
When you boil it all down, nothing bothers feminists more than a man’s ability to stand while peeing.
Sorry girls. I will exercise my masculine prerogatives as long as I feel like it. And my wife allows it.
I thought it was called a urinal?
Sounds stupid and as though a woman designed this. How hard is it to make th urine drain on the back?
Considering that Sinn Fein recently won big, who’s to say that they don’t sit down to pee already?
Oh, the writer wants to be oh-so modern and sophisticated and use the term "gender". But, oops, he/she/it forgot and then uses the term "men and boys".
“Considering that Sinn Fein recently won big, who’s to say that they don’t sit down to pee already?”
It’s shocking how quickly Ireland went from one of the most conservative country in Europe to one of its most liberal.
There are already urinals, geniuses.
To a man, the world is our urinal.
I long wondered about that business ‘pisseth against the wall,’ in the KJV.
I guess it is too complex to just divert the urinal drains to the new collection tank. But then will the women hit the proper hole with their urine when they sit as usual?
Yep, Europe’s big into this.
“Feidhlim Harty ends his book Septic Tank Options and Alternatives”
I knew it was just a matter of time before they would come for septic tanks. They want everyone in the cities in high density housing where they can keep an eye on you.
My policy re peeing is to put the seat down, pee, and then put it back up.
Yep. I innovated a solution to this one time but was too lazy to get it to market. I called it the Feenis.
There’s plenty of water where I live. It just poured two day straight. It has been raining just about every other day. I don’t need restricted flow showers, faucets, or toilets that don’t work. These eff’n leftists can go straight to hell with their Gorbal Warming BS. If too many people live in a desert, well that’s their damn problem. MOVE.
Tell them to kiss your Blarney stones.
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