Flush Toilets in a Green Home?
My daughter and I are guests in a state-of-the-art green home, and I have just finished plunging a clogged toilet on her behalf. I feel queasy. Though I only have to do this a couple of times a year, I feel mildly traumatized. Sure, it’s nasty, but the part that bothers me most is the toilet itself.
The way I see it, flush toilets are a relic of the past. They consume precious drinking water and produce a disproportionate volume of toxic, bio-hazardous waste. Even low-flush toilets are hybrid Hummers, a field improvement on a fundamentally bad idea.
Aesthetically speaking, does anyone dispute that flush toilets are just plain gross? Hey, other than clogging, splash-back, overflows, streaking, and sound amplification, what’s not to like?
As it turns out, the problems posed by “modern sanitation” are immense, but completely unnecessary.
