Sustainable Toilets
What is an Enviro Loo?
At this location, we’ll look at one simple and effective solution to the numerous sanitation challenges facing the World. Without prohibitive costs or strain on precious water resources, the Enviro Loo is a special toilet designed for the benefit of all communities and can be installed anywhere.
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WATER SAVING ENVIRO LOO
Water is one of our most precious resources and any invention or device that can save water is fantastic. For too long, our society has used water as if we have an endless supply and as a consequence are now facing the real threat of water restrictions as being a regular occurrence in many regions around the world. To combat this threat, we need solutions that save water immediately and one such invention is the waterless Enviro Loo.
Did you know that each time we flush the toilet, we flush up to 9 to 10 litres of clean drinking water away as sewage! Calculate this by 3 uses per day per person, multiplied by the average family of 4 and we waste a whopping 120 litres a day, 840 litres a week and 43,680 litres a year!
ENVIRO LOO TO THE RESCUE
The Enviro Loo is self-contained, relatively affordable and most importantly, does not pollute
drinking water.
In the initial phase, the system separates liquid and solid waste as it enters the container via the custom designed ceramic toilet bowl. Liquid waste drains to the bottom of the container while soiled waste remains on the drying plate.
Both the liquid and the soiled waste are exposed to a continuous flow of air that's driven through the unit by the
forced aeration ventilation system. The movement of air is assisted by the ventilation extraction unit positioned on top of the outlet vent pipe with air being drawn into the container via the inlet vent pipes and toilet bowl.
The design makes use of radiant heat and wind to evaporate and dehydrate waste matter, turning it into a safe, stabilised and odourless dry material.
Did you Know?
Treating Sewage
India continues research into finding a use for one of its least coveted resources: the 15 million
cubic metres of sewage it generates every day. Acting on the principle that sewage is not just wastewater but also a source of nutrients, an experimental plant in operation since 1994 treats sewage with aquatic weeds and fish. One million litres of primary treated sewage a day sits first in ponds containing duckweed, then in ponds stocked with carp and prawns. After five days, water quality has improved to the point where it may be used for agriculture, although not for drinking.
Time for change!
Mexico City: June 2000
Two days after heavy rains ruptured the retaining wall of an open-air sewage canal east of Mexico City; thousands of people were camped on their roofs with their homes inundated by three feet (one metre) of stinking water and human waste.
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THE SUSTAINABLE TOILET
Do you Eloo?
The Amazing Enviro-Loo
Dry Human Sanitation System
The Enviro Loo is just one of many waste solutions now available. It is environmentally friendly and perfect for parks, recreation and other outside areas where septic systems and water are not possible.
THE ENVIRO LOO DOESN’T USE WATER AND IS IDEAL FOR:
Campgrounds Rest Stops
Resorts and Cabins Golf Courses
Theme Parks Schools
Remote Areas Sport Venues
DRY, NO - DISCHARGE COST EFFECTIVE FOR ALL GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
No pumping, no water or chemicals.
Minimal maintenance, waste evaporates.
Up to 60 uses daily and easy installation.
No electricity or batteries.
Enviro Loo is not a compost chemical, electric toilet or pit latrine.
The Enviro Loo is on display at Earth Sanctuary as a Positive Global Solution.
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QUIZ 15: SUSTAINABLE TOILET
With 97% of all the water on Earth swirling around in our oceans, 2% locked up in ice shelves and just 1% available as drinking water,it‘s no wonder that we need to get smarter with how we use our water for the future. It’s now time for the next quiz! Remember, most of the answers can be found in the previous section but some questions may require you to dig deeper. So, consider the internet, go to the library or ask a friend. Now stop flushing around and start saving water!
What is a sustainable toilet?
2. How does a sustainable toilet work?
3. Why is saving water so important?
4. List 5 benefits of a water-less toilet?
5. What sort of places are most suitable for a composting toilet?
6. Approximately, how much fresh drinking water is used in a single flush toilet?
7. Work out how many times per day you flush the toilet?
8. Calculate how much water your home must use every year?
9. What can the dry material created from the water-less toilet be used for?
10. What circumstances created 'the Great Stink' in London back in 1858?
QUICK QUIZ
How to Play: Connect the Questions
to One of the 3 Answers provided:
Questions:
I look like a shiny black rock.
I am a fossil fuel that is buried underground.
I am often transported by river barges.
I can pollute the air when I am burned to make
electricity.
Answers:
COAL - SOLAR ENERGY - PLASTIC
Questions:
I am used on farms and in backyard grills.
I am portable and can be shipped in tanks and
bottles.
I am a fossil fuel that is buried underground.
I am clean burning.
Answers:
BIOMASS - COAL - PROPANE
Fun Facts
Poop
Poop is the nice way of saying feces. Which is a Latin word (faeces in fact) which is a plural of faex which means "dregs". Pooping is a process by which the waste products of metabolism are removed or eliminated from an organism. The waste matter is discharged from the bowels as excrement. The waste products include residue of food together with bacteria, cells from the intestinal lining and secretions (mainly from the liver), water, carbon dioxide, nitrogen-containing compounds, such as ammonia, urea and uric acid.
The Great Stink
Before London’s vast system of sewer tunnels was built, the city used on-site sanitation, which meant cesspools in the backyards of Londoners. But as London’s population increased, the system became grossly inadequate. When the service of emptying cesspools cleanly and hygienically became too expensive, people began discharging their cesspools directly into the Thames, culminating in “The Great Stink” of 1858.