Despite a modest growing concern on the environmental impact of technology, gadgets don’t seem to be getting green enough, fast enough.

According to a recent report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) the issue of unrecycled electronics is getting worse and with a massive increase in the amount of electronic gadgets expected to be sold in the Africa, South America, China and India over the next decade, things are about to get infinitely worse.

Based on information obtained on 11 different developing nations, the following scenarios are expected to occur by 2020:

• South African, Chinese, and Indian electronic waste will increase over 2007 levels by 200, 400 and 500% respectively.

• The number of cell phones expected to hit landfills in China will multiply by 18 times.

• On a global scale, the amount of electronic waste is increasing each year by approximately 40 million tons.

If a study has ever given more cause to buy greener gadgets and to recycle electronics, I haven’t seen it.

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?