Free Republic

A waterless-urinals agreement is in the can, and that means that the Comcast Center will be able to install the environmentally friendly basins in its new headquarters, a spokesman for Mayor Street announced last night. Street brokered the complex deal between the developer, Liberty Property Trust, and Plumbers Union Local 690, with support from State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo after the potty standoff was made public in The Inquirer and became a cause celebre for the city's environmental groups. The agreement clears the way for Liberty to install 116 no-flush urinals in the men's rooms at the 58-story Comcast Center,...

<p>The lawsuit, reiterating charges that first surfaced in a criminal case against three Burger King employees, alleges that restaurant workers may have been tampering with food for eight months before the contamination came to light.</p> <p>About 19 people “were terminated when the reprehensible and criminal conduct occurring at the defendant’s Burger King restaurant was finally reported by an employee who could no longer sleep at night after learning that the food contamination had escalated from spitting to urination, all the way up to placing lethal poison on food products,’’ allege the court papers, filed on behalf of a Monroe County sheriff’s deputy who maintains he suffered severe gastrointestinal injuries after eating a contaminated burger.</p>

Dry urinals are being installed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to help the environment. Airport officials are hoping the new urinals will prevent thousands of gallons of water from being wasted. They also hope to save money. Two public urinals in high-traffic Terminal 2 and one urinal in an employee building will be replaced with the new urinals. Unlike conventional toilets, the waterless system doesn't require flushing. Instead, urine passes through a floating cartridge filled with an oil-like substance that absorbs the fluid, fights bacteria and soaks odor. Traditional urinals use one gallon per flush. Three of the urinals...