Archintoo.com – Environmentally friendly toilets Perhaps the first generation is fairly well known, even in Indonesia, namely the type of toilet bilasnya two buttons, a light rinse to just pee and one full rinse to get rid of dirt.

But, now made of toilet greener longer, ie toilet NoMix aka “no mixing”, which can distinguish between urine and feces. This toilet workings is to divide the container into two parts. The front to the back of the urine and feces for. So it needs adjustment for toilet users. Make no mistake “shoot”, if one no good.

What are the advantages of this separation?
For the government, in the long run, more efficient. In developed countries, all channeled through the feces underground channel to the recycling center, but this method is expensive and long term can not be maintained.

“One solution is easier than the sewer line is to separate the urine to be reused,” said Judit Lienert, researchers from the Swiss Government Institute for Air Science.

Urine contains nitrogen and phosphorus, so it can be used as fertilizer. A separate survey said that most people do not mind eating the produce of human urine fertilizer use.

Urine is already recycled can also be used to rinse the urine in the toilet. More sense than the urine rinsing with water that is 100 percent fresh.

Lienert also reminded that human urine is better used in the garden and agriculture rather than flowed into the river or the sea in which the urine could nourish algae. Excessive algae can be spent if the oxygen content in the waters so that fish, fisheries and other creatures instead strangled.

So far, findings have been welcomed NoMix toilet properly. Approximately four out of five people, or 80 percent of respondents, like with this new model.

This toilet is already used in Sweden since ten years ago in a planned housing project is environmentally friendly. And, the idea to separate urine from feces is not really any new ideas. Ancient Romans used to do this even with a much simpler way.

NoMix toilet trouble
Firstly, well the problem “target” had to pee. Urine should be entered on the front of the toilet containers. This could be a psychological obstacle for the men who are used to pee standing. To be more certain urine into the front, it is advisable to pee in the sitting position, even for men.

Second, it means cleaning the toilets is more complicated. Third, if it’s urine would be used as a fertilizer directly on the page itself, so far the urine reservoir must be issued manually.

NoMix toilet research is issued by Lienert and published in the January issue of the journal of the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology.(kompas.com)

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