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In Part I of this two-part series, I discussed why there has been a recent surge of interest from toilet manufacturers in producing so-called “green toilets.” Basically, this was caused by a 1992 law that a toilet was required to use less than 1.6 gallons of water to flush.

In the first article, I gave a brief explanation of some of the types of green toilets that were introduced in response to the law. The toilets mentioned were just the varieties that still use water to flush. However, there are more radical toilet designs that use little or no water.

HAS compost toilet compacts and dehydrates solid waste, turning it into compost. This can be safely used as fertilizer for home gardens.

Tea urine separator toilet It is a modification of the composting toilet that separates liquid and solid waste. This allows the urine, which is rich in nutrients, to be used directly as fertilizer.

Year incinerator toilet allows all waste material to fall into a holding tank, where it is burned immediately. (Safety measures are in place to ensure that the incinerator does not cause any personal harm.) This process, however, renders the residue useless as a fertilizer.

The biological toilet, or biolet it adds a small amount of water to the waste, which is then slowly passed through a substance that contains bacteria. This breaks down waste matter into non-toxic substances. Currently, this type of toilet is quite expensive, so it is not widely used in the United States.

squat toilet, just as the name suggests, require the user to crouch over a hole in the floor. A small amount of water is used to push the debris out of the hole using a siphon effect. This type of toilet is quite common in third world countries and is actually quite hygienic as no part of your body touches the toilet.

Although some of the features of these waterless toilets may turn you off a bit, they have been thoroughly tested and pose no threat to either the user of the machine or the user of the resulting products. Hopefully, the cost of some of these new eco-friendly toilets will go down as more are used.

For much more information on these and other green toilets, check out the author’s website, shown in the next paragraph.

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