Toilet / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...toilets work: the biology of waste A composting toilet is not a disposal unit but a biological reactor. Unlike a standard flush toilet that uses 1.6 gallons (6 liters) or more per flush to transport waste to a septic tank or municipal sewer, a composting toilet uses aerobic decomposition to treat human waste. The proce...

...toilet flapper then!  A typical North American toilet cistern and fill and flush system with float removed for access - those are Sointula rocks to save water! © Robert J. Pierson Step 3 - check the size and type of toilet flapper To replace the old toilet flapper, you're first going to need a new toilet flapper of t...

...toilets and how to stop toilets running and wasting water by changing the flapper in the cistern easily with simple instructions here The amount of trees cut to make toilet paper And if you want the straight poop on the global ‘personal hygiene’ stats, wrap your head around this - the pulp required for toilet paper man...

...toilets -which is better? Single flush low-flow toilets like the Boulevard® FloWise® and Studio® FloWise® toilets from American Standard that we selected use no more than 4.8 liters per flush guaranteed, which is less than the average 6 liters used, and usually less than the average that come with dual flush toilets in...

...toilets and how to stop toilets running and wasting water by changing the flapper. Now you know more about regywater recycling. Find more pages for DIY reno guides and sustainable and resilient green building techniques here :  Are low-flow showerheads worth it? How to fix a leaky faucet Water efficient toile...