New toilets flush with less gusto
The new residents of McClellan Hall found a surprise waiting for them when they got back to campus for move-in week: instructions for using the toilets in their bathrooms.
As part of a campuswide effort to conserve water, the University this summer installed “green” toilets in McClellan, the annex for juniors in Trumbull and Jonathan Edwards colleges. The UPPERCUT™ Dual-Flush toilets — which flush upward for liquid waste and downward for solid waste — have been a fixture at the School of Medicine for over a year.
“It was kind of weird at first,” Courtney Sender ’10 said of...
Another possible issue is that a "pipeline" (whether for crude oil or bathroom stuff) needs to have lots of "stuff" flowing through it to flush it out properly (I think).
Any pipeline engineers out there, reading this ?
I can't help but wonder if these endless reductions from the original 5-gallon per flush down to almost zero ... will just be a bonanza for the Roto-Rooter man ?
Jon K. '78 (BK)
While Yale is worried about flushing toilets that are "environmentally friendly" and spends thousands of dollars on it, most people in the third world have no running water and have no food. Waste of money in my opinion.
they say nothing here about the poop. I agree with Dusseldorf, I dropped a doozle and it completely grinded my poop to shreds! I don't care how much money or water is saved or wasted, these toilets STANK!
It says nothing here about what these toilets do to your actual dumps. The first flush not only "shreds toilet paper" it also grinds your dumps into little pieces, which causes for a disgusting sight and a far worse smell, as much more gas is set free than usual.