The Bathroom Reinvented: Hyphae
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Some great ideas here. Someday they will be the norm.
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Around 30 years ago some research with similar goals were done at McMaster university (Hamilton, Ontario) to save and/or reuse waste water within the residential buildings. It my be worthwhile for interested parties to look them up.
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5 years ago I said the same thing to my husband - there has got to be a way to save all this water we keep using up. My idea was really complicated but based on the same principals - using plants and rocks to recreate a stream effect or forced river to not only cleans the water but to feed the organic matter into the earth and then re-use the water through the toilet. I am excited to see I am not the only one who has this on my mind. I hope that we will be able to hack into our plumbing this year and build a system like Brents. //
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I hope to see a lot more of this kind of system in remodeling projects soon, particularly here in the Southwest. I think there are As we are concerned why not continue to develop compost toilet technology? No water at all needed for those, gray or potable. Sun-Mar is a company marketing a variety. They need design aesthetic improvement in my opinion, but they are beautiful for the environment!
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just want to be sure that Brent and everyone else has read The Humanure Handbook by by Joseph Jenkins. Because the recycling is happening now (safely).
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All great and good. But where I live, at minus 40 degrees for weeks on end, that waste pond is a frozen block of ice. What else is out there for the harsher climates?
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