DPA
Tokyo - Tired of smelly public toilets? Check out a prototype Japanese bio-toilet that emits no foul smell and helps the environment at the same time. A bio-toilet developed by a Japanese non-profit organization is designed to activate micro-organisms living in cider chips and decompose excrement.
In the decomposition process, only nitrogen gas and water are left. The water can be reused for toilet flushing.
The group began setting up bio-toilets for nature conservation at Japan's highest Mount Fuji, where excrement kept during the summer hiking season had been dumped into the soil after the trail closed for winter.
The human excrement, which created a trace called "the white river," had been a source of contamination on the sacred mountain.
But all 42 public toilets have now been replaced with the bio-toilets and other eco-friendly public restrooms, according to Jiji Press.
Last year, the group set up the prototype restrooms in the Mount Rainier national park in the United States and plans are in the works to import them to Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Kanghwado island in South Korea this year.
In the decomposition process, only nitrogen gas and water are left. The water can be reused for toilet flushing.
The group began setting up bio-toilets for nature conservation at Japan's highest Mount Fuji, where excrement kept during the summer hiking season had been dumped into the soil after the trail closed for winter.
The human excrement, which created a trace called "the white river," had been a source of contamination on the sacred mountain.
But all 42 public toilets have now been replaced with the bio-toilets and other eco-friendly public restrooms, according to Jiji Press.
Last year, the group set up the prototype restrooms in the Mount Rainier national park in the United States and plans are in the works to import them to Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Kanghwado island in South Korea this year.
4 comments:
"Designed to activate micro-organisms living in cider chips and decompose excrement."
What is the cost per toilet?
How much does it cost to produce cider chips for the toilet?
How do you handle the waste from the toilet and the storage?
My guess is that this toilet will cost at least $2000 to $3000 not including the cost of the cider chips and storage problem and handling from one location to the next!
The perfect solution is to get rid of the human waste without using water which is to burn it but then the cost of burning is too high and a waste of energy and not good for environment!
The search for a perfect toilet is still going…
my solution is to compact the solid waste, dry it then use it burning.
fertilized it stupid
To 12:23AM
Using human waste as fertilizer will spread disease and contaminate water big time!
http://www.matc.org/lntscoop.htm
Post a Comment