Latest Stories in Bathroom Design
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Composting toilets are coming home
It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.
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More hot poop on composting toilets
A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.
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Folding Bathtub from 1915 Would Make Sense Today
Why take up so much space with a tub when you can just unfurl it when you need it?
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Low on Water? Take An Air Shower
This shower head uses 50% less water while still making it feel like you're taking a full-pressure shower.
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2012: The Year in Pee and Poop
Another year down the drain: From pee-powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet-related stories. Here are some of our favorites.
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Coming Soon to Your Bathroom: The Bluetooth- Controlled Bidet/ Toilet
Because hands-free is supposed to be cleaner. But is it true?
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4 Composting Outhouses That Provide a Room With a View
Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.
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Portland, Oregon's Latest Export: Public Toilets
They have developed a clever design of a public toilet that isn't very private
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Stop The Five Gallon Flush: A 40 Year Old Guide To Alternative Toilets
Bill Gates take note: It's all in here and It is surprising how little has changed
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Crapping On Bill Gates' "Reinvent the Toilet" Winner
The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.
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World's Biggest Urine Separating, Composting Toilet Scheme Fails
We keep saying that this is the way we should go, but perhaps the technology here just wasn't ready.
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Singapore University Puts Together The Plumbing System That Everyone Should Be Using
It uses almost no water to separate urine from poop and whisks it all away to make fertilizer and methane. I just wish they didn't claim they invented a new toilet.
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Fox News In Shock: Composting Toilets Don't Smell
TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?
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"A New Desire" From LIXIL Is A New Kind of Bathing
A whole new way to take a bath, in some very silly places.
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More Hot Poop on Composting and Alternative Toilets
It's time to seriously consider putting composting toilets in our houses; they are getting so good that you will barely notice the change.
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Yes, Civilized People DO Have Composting Toilets In Their Homes
Waste is too valuable to just flush away. But can you comfortably live with the alternative? Laurence Grant does, and explains how.
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Smart Toilet & Sink Combo Uses Greywater to Flush
Flushing with drinking water is wasteful; water from washing your hands is used to flush the toilet in this water-saving toilet design.
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More Hot Poop on Composting Toilets: Biolan Icelett Freezes Your Poop For Composting Later
We have seen toilets that vaporize it and compost it, but this is the first we have seen that refrigerates it.
