No-Mix Toilet

Although it comprises only about 1 percent of waste water in sewage systems, urine contributes some 80 percent of nitrogen and 45 percent of phosphate. Removing these impurities during the process of converting sewage water into clean weather requires energy intensive pumping, stirring, heating and so forth.

So what’s a solution? Here’s the No-Mix Toilet.

This toilet separates urine and poo-poo at the source. The nutrients in urine can be then recycled for such purposes as fertilizer. And the other sewage can then be transported to waste treatment facilities where actually can be used to produce power rather than consume it.

Houston Chronicle

[Thanks, David!]

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One Response to No-Mix Toilet

  1. Darren says:

    That's going to need a funny looking plunger!

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