The developed world has an extremely expensive sewage system that pipes the feces, urine and wastewater from every household to waste treatment centers - hardly a sustainable system.
Ideally we should be doing things like capturing the urine and recycling it as a nitrogen and phosphorus rich fertilizer. This would also save water that would have otherwise been used flush the urine away. Enter the NoMix toilet.
The NoMix toilet has been used for about a decade in Sweden but is just now getting attention in North America. The NoMix separates urine and feces right at the source, your bathroom, through its unique design.
The NoMix toilet has raised section at the front of the bowl that is designed for urine to drain into, while a different tank at the rear of the toilet receives the feces which gets flushed away as usual.
What do you think? Are you ready for the NoMix toilet?
July 13th, 2010 at 7:13 am
This article needs more information. For example, how does one get the urine from the toilet to a usable form of fertilizer. And how do they prevent odors if there is no water mixed with the urine. For the feces part, how does it compare in water consumption to other low water usage toilets?