Tag: Toilets - Page 4
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The H2Orb Flushes Your Leaky Toilet Troubles Away
It's easy to ignore, that little ripple of water in your toilet tank that you think might be a leak, but you don't have time and you're really not sure. The next time you pop a squat, there it is again, mocking you,
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Is Peeing in Public Green?
Image credit: almbfa2004 on Travel Shots Peeing in Public Saves Water - But is it Gross? I seem to be in the habit of sharing my bathroom habits with the world - whether it's the Selective Flush or the Navy Shower. (Perhaps worryingly) people seem to
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Peepoople: Portable, Affordable Sanitation for Everybody
Image credit: Peepoople Hygenic, Biodegradable Single-use Toilets for the Developing World It's no great secret that sanitation and clean drinking water are major challenges in much of the world. But, like the Life Straw or Freeplay's self-powered
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Squared Toilet Paper = Less Waste
via Lintcoat Whether it's quilted, cottony-soft or recycled, toilet paper still has a long way to go before it eschews the dubious honour of being an ubiquitous symbol of a wasteful society. So it's always a good idea to: a) not use too much; b) to get
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Carbon Labeling Toilet Paper: Who Does it Help?
Image credit: The Guardian (Glad to see they helped US readers out by explaining what's in the picture!) Do Carbon Labels Facilitate Better Choices? I've already written about Greenpeace claims that soft toilet paper is worse than Hummers, but now UK
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Greenpeace vs Kleenex: More Than a Feeling (Video)
Greenpeace Spoofs Kleenex Ads When I wrote about Greenpeace's assertion that soft toilet roll may be worse than Hummers, the post attracted a good deal of traffic. But of course it's not just folks wiping their butts on ancient forest that we have to
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Recycled vs Virgin Toilet Paper Is Like Paper vs Plastic Bags
There used to be a big debate about which is better-paper or plastic bags; now we know the answer is neither- bring your own. Perhaps the debate going on now about virgin vs recycled toilet paper is similar- the best solution is to use
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Recycled Toilet Paper vs Virgin: Fox News Can't Tell
100% Recycled TP Wins in Blind Fox News Test My post earlier this week about the soft vs recycled toilet paper controversy stirred up some passionate discussion - it seems people really care about what they wipe their butts with. In fact, Greenpeace's
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Soft Toilet Roll Worse than Hummers and McMansions?
Image credit: The Guardian Green Groups Claim Soft TP is Worse than SUVs Our sister site Planet Green has already explored 9 green toilet paper tips, but the struggle continues. From a purely symbolic standpoint, it's hard to think of a more
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How Far Are You Willing to Go to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
When it comes to saving the planet, there are a number of degrees from which one can place themselves. For instance, would you be
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Can Potty Poetry Reduce Wasted TP?
We've all been in bathroom stalls where poetry (at least by a loose definition) has littered the walls. But who'd have thought that poetry in the potty could make you use less toilet paper? A study by the research
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Faucet Giant Kohler Launches Water Saving Contest
While they design the faucets and fixtures that bring the water to you in style, they don't think that wasting water should be part of the design. So, Kohler, maker of ???, has launched their Save Water America campaign to educate
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Survey Says: Men's Bad Bathroom Habits are Good for the Environment
We know that some men have bad bathroom habits (women too). But it has come to our attention that a few of these social no-no's, might actually be good for the environment, at least to some degree. Our question is, at what
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Last Report of a Crackpot: How Much Energy to Use the Toilet?
Thermostat Chicken King In the game of thermostat chicken, Turboglacier is holding a lead. The blogger from Portland, Maine, has not yet turned on the heating. The "crackpot" title relates to Turboglacier's penchant for musing on
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Terrific Toilets by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmson
We spend a lot of time worrying about the design of our foreground buildings like art galleries, but give almost no thought at all to the prosaic, basic needs that every city should supply, particularly to those who are not in cars. So if you are a
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Greenhouse Nightclub Opens in NYC...Not the City's First Eco-Saloon, Though
Long-awaited in New York City is the "environmentally conscious" Greenhouse Nightclub on Varick Street in New York City's Soho neighborhood, which had a "soft" opening last week. Greenhouse comes right on the heels of GustOrganic, the first "100%" USDA
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MTV's Public Urination Water Conservation Ad
MTV Takes Aim at Water Conservation Back in September I wrote about MTV's Switch campaign taking on greenwashers, now it seems the channel is also turning its attention to our toilet habits. In an apparent appeal for the "selective flush", MTV's
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How to Go Green: In the Bathroom
[by Lloyd Alter and Collin Dunn]
