| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| bingo |
Do you only flush poo?Does anybody else do this?Sounds horrible but with two little kids and two adults that know better........ .......well it seems sense to me. And no....my house dosen't smell of wee. Only when I piss in the washing bin drunk. |
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| bingo |
Poo's of course, get rid! | ||
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i have 2 kids that seem incapable fo flushing the loo anytime.
she makes up for it by brushing her teeth 8 times a day and turning the tap on for the cat to watch. |
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| Jamanda |
When it's yellow, let it mellow.
When it's brown, flush it down. That sort of idea Bingo? |
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| bingo |
That's the baby. I would like too point out that I haven't wee'd any where apart from where it should be in many years. 
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| Frewen |
I don't believe you 
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| bingo |
I will be honest. I was an alcoholic but now I drink within reason. It has been years since I pissed in the cupboard. |
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| Behemoth |
I know someone who went for their slippers.
Not flushing is one of the easiest ways to save water. |
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| Green Rosie |
There's such a rush for the loo in our house in the morning, even taking time flushing would slow things down too much  . So it's 4 wees then we flush - and that pretty much carries on through the day. Why people think it is odd doing this are (IMHO) the odd ones.
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| orangepippin |
We also do this. Flushing is such a waste of water. | ||
| Chez |
Normally, fine. Currently, doesn't help the morning sickness
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| hamster |
Well, I managed to break our flush yesterday, so looks like we'll be saving a lot of water this way! | ||
| MarkS |
the OH has just decided that urine is a good thing on the compost heap so no flushing at all.
just a rather unsavoury looking selection of plastic bottles and a bucket piled next to the loo. 
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| Rowanlady |
Even the 'brown' can be flushed without using pristine potable water
We keep a bucket in the kitchen and every scrap of 'used' water goes in it - water from washing up, vegetable prep, cleaning worktops/floor, cooking, etc The weekly bathwater is scooped into a string of buckets kept in the bath, daily washing water too Just make sure you pour from a good height, at speed and to the side of the pan to utilise the swirl effect - you soon get the knack!
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| James |
we do this.
I also tried to get it implemented at work, but it met with disgust. And thats at the Environment Agency...so I think the general public have a long way to go before they adopt it. FACT: the average Somali adult exists on the equivalent of one "traditional" flush of a UK toilet per day (2 gallons). That's for washing, cooking, drinking and cleaning. (source: Wateraid) |
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| Erikht |
I see that my latest fad, earthships, use grey water for toilet flushing - and then send the sewage through the banana plantation in the living room. All done with power produced by the building itself.
But I flush it all. Norway has no lack of water, nor gravity to push it around. |
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| Barefoot Andrew |
The only problem with all of this is when one does a massive non-flusher, that takes about 20 flushes to get rid, un-doining all of the good 'if it's yellow let it mellow' work...
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| Slim |
humanure handbook (available free online!)
Not what I presently do, as I haven't got a place of my own, but I've used the system at other folks' places, and it works a treat. If done properly; no odors, and wonderful humanure to recycle your nutrients (and capture the nutrients brought in from food you get from elsewhere). I think the safest way of utilizing the humanure is to use it to fertilize a "fertility patch" something like a planting of alfalfa (sorry, do you call it lucerne?) & comfrey which you can later cut and use as mulch or compost again or whatever it is you feel necessary to create enough separation from your food. (though I wouldn't be grossed out if you spread the humanure straight under your fruit trees...) The best part about the system (besides the complete lack of water usage and maximum nutrient retention) is that it's incredibly affordable. Why buy a huge, expensive composting toilet? |
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| Slim |
plus there's no such thing as a "massive non-flusher" (thank you B.A. scarred for life.... ) if you're not flushing at all!
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| Barefoot Andrew |
Floaters... A. |
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| Behemoth |
Ah, the domestic otter! |
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| boisdevie1 |
If I need to pee I often just pop outside into the garden. Other times I have a bucket in the barn which I then empty onto the compost heap or down mole holes (I heard it discourages them). | ||
| Nanny |
what rolf calls a war canoe then 'raid our plumbing is not good so you don't leave anything hanging round so to speak upstairs and every time you go you flush sometimes i have to follow it with a five gallon bucker of water as well to .....disperse....i guess that is the phrase i would use in the downstairs loo the flush is very good.....like concord taking off that is....living in wales, we have no shortage of water here.... |