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Toilets have been on my mind a lot lately. Last week I temped a job at Harvard University and noticed that the toilet had two levers for the flush, one for the big jobs and the other for smaller, more … Read More

By / March 26, 2007
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Toilets have been on my mind a lot lately. Last week I temped a job at Harvard University and noticed that the toilet had two levers for the flush, one for the big jobs and the other for smaller, more discreet ones. Unfortunately, I flushed multiple times defeating its purpose because I had no idea what the symbols actually meant. I had seen this type of contraption in Israel (where water is scarce), but never before in the U.S. so I made note of it.

Then the other night, I heard Jay Leno poke fun at the use of compost toilets, the energy-saving, environmentally green alternative to toilet paper. And suddenly these toilets are turning up everywhere. There's even an entire site dedicated to it. Friday, as I waited 2.5 hours at the DMV to renew my driver's license, I then read an article about celebrities practicing green living solutions (Earth Day is next month already after all). About the time I read about Pierce Brosnan and his wife owning one of these composters, I thought back to Leno's apropos joke about a hose and a hair dryer being equally as effective as one of these $1600 machines. Moreover, can't celebrities afford to hire people to wipe their own asses?

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  • Marianna

    I have no problem with compost toilets. If anyone wants to use it, then that’s fine by me… but as long as they don’t rub it in my face that I NEED to use one, too. I do my part to help the environment because I take responsibility for my actions.

    This kind of reminds me of that South Park episode on "smug"… it’s about hybrid owners who don’t pollute the ozone with smog, but pollute with their "smug"-ness :)

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