You may not know it, but your urine is an environmental menace.
Although it comprises only about 1 percent of waste water in sewage systems, urine contributes some 80 percent of nitrogen and 45 percent of phosphate. Removing these impurities during the process of converting sewage water into clean weather requires energy intensive pumping, stirring, heating and so forth.
So what’s a solution? Here’s the No-Mix Toilet.
This toilet separates urine and poo-poo at the source. The nutrients in urine can be then recycled for such purposes as fertilizer. And the other sewage can then be transported to waste treatment facilities where actually can be used to produce power rather than consume it.
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TOKYO, Japan — It’s like American Girl meets Hello, Kitty.
–Cats in kimono. Cats dressed in red curls like Anne of Green Gables. Cats posing in Napoleon hats. Cats in tiaras. Cats in black lace.
Cat costumes created and sold by Takako Iwasa of Tokyo are creative, clever and catastrophically funny.
–”First, dress her up,” instructs Iwasa-san, as she is known in Japan, to her website visitors. “Cheer or yell. Do whatever you like to enjoy the moment with your family.
Second, after you are enough with your joy, take a photo!
–”And third, remove her clothes and give her a hug, say ‘Thank you!’ “
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