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Topic started on 20-11-2008 @ 11:19 AM by nyk537

Experts call for end of flushing toilets on World Toilet Day


www.news.com.au
AS the world celebrates World Toilet Day today, sanitation experts have called for the end of the flushing dunny to save water and provide fertilizer for crops.

Leading health advocates have called for the use of "dry" toilets which separate urine from faeces and remove the need to flush.

Speaking at the recent World Toilet Summit in Macau, World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sims said the concept of the flushing toilet was unsustainable.

Mr Sims said a culture where people flushed their loos but disregarded the thousands of litres of wasted drinking water each year was one of sanitation's greatest challenges.

"This 'flush and forget' attitude creates a new problem which we have to revisit," he said.
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reply posted on 20-11-2008 @ 11:54 AM by neonine
flush with pride

they got them at some of our rest stops on the freeway now to, there rather nifty if you ask me.


reply posted on 20-11-2008 @ 08:07 PM by whitewave
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There's a "world toilet day"? Who thinks this stuff up?

Maybe we could have it around Ramadan when people are fasting anyway?

Ever heard the saying: If it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down?
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