If it%26#039;s brown, let it drown.
If it%26#039;s yellow, let it mellow.
For those of you who are not au fait with this maxim, I will inform you that it translates as: If it%26#039;s poo, flush the loo. If it%26#039;s wee, let it be! Hey I%26#039;m a poet and I didn%26#039;t even know it!
Now don%26#039;t get me wrong. I know the environment%26#039;s important but there is a hygiene issue here. When I go to MY toilet, there is a smell of rancid wee. I%26#039;m not sure what the environmental advantages are of not flushing your toilet so often but whatever they are (please tell me) do they outweigh the hygiene issues involved in not flushing away bodily waste products.
When I go for a poo, I end up flushing the toilet before and after I go. I flush it before because I don%26#039;t want to get splished by my kids%26#039; wee that has been stewing there for the last 4 hours. Capito?
Hope I haven%26#039;t been too graphic but it%26#039;s hard to approach the subject without being.
Thank you!
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Other Answers (13)
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I%26#039;m sorry but people should always flush after they%26#039;re done doing whatever business they had, haha. I hate to come to a toilet and seeing someone else%26#039;s excess body fluid in the toilet. People who care about the environment are going to hate me because even after I blow my nose, I flush the tissue down the toilet. =)
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Pee is sterile, and assuming your toilet is relatively clean it shouldn%26#039;t be unsanitary to your bottom should you drop a splasher.
It does save water, not flushing after a mere pee. I myself pee outside whenever possible. Being male has its environmental advantages i guess. And as things go i would say you are a poet! -
To expound on Dylan F%26#039;s suggestion: Organic fertilizer is, as all environmentalists know, poop. So just have your kids go outside and poop in your garden! You and your husband should also do the same. We won%26#039;t peek, honest!
You know, except for a few gallons which are in the space station, every single droplet of water that ever existed since the beginning of time on planet earth is STILL HERE!
When we use water it goes back into the environment. -
This is not really an environmental issue....not all environmentalists live in the woods and chop down their own wood and hunt their own food. (a bit of sarcasm there...)
You should absolutely flush each time you use the toilet and if you are not teaching your children that...then I can guarantee you that they will learn to do that when they enter school! -
That is the nastiest thing I have ever heard. I wouldn%26#039;t want my kids around that filth, Disgusting, you should flush the toilet every time, no matter what! And teach your children to do the same, I don%26#039;t know about you, but I sure don%26#039;t want to look at or go near a filthy bathroom.
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I flush whenever I use the toilet. Sometimes if it%26#039;s one of those stupid underpowered lo-flow toilets I%26#039;ll flush multiple times to get everything down.
Common decency
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The environmental advantage of flushing the toilet less, is less water used.
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First of all you should avoid using water for all of your natural elimination functions. Your entire family should go wee wee out in the yard on a shrub or any other suitable item. Next, poo poo....I encourage my family to poo poo in a 55 gallon steel drum that is covered by a hermetic membrane when not in use. At the end every week I open up the drum and drop a Willy Peter (a white phosphorus chemical munition) grenade into it.
White phosphorus is a chemical weapon with two different uses. In its %26quot;conventional%26quot; use as a tool of war, white phosphorus provides illumination and smoke cover for soldiers in combat. During the battle of Fallujah in November 2004, the United States used white phosphorus in %26quot;shake and bake%26quot; missions to flush out insurgent positions. It is great for destroying poo. -
Not sure how it is done, but there are commercial toilets that have a %26quot;2-way%26quot; function, push lever up for %26quot;liquid waste%26quot;, push lever down for %26quot;solid waste%26quot;. This is an excellent solution to the problem.
What is needed is a two chamber tank for the home. One lever to operate a smaller flush using less water, and a second lever to operate both chambers for a larger flush. (If they are not available, you can tell your friends that you first heard about it here -- anyone want to work with me on this project?)
Teach your children to flush after each use because it shows respect for the next user and it reinforces the concept of %26quot;cleaning up after yourself%26quot; instead of having someone else clean up after you. Why pick up your clothes off the floor and hang them in a closet if mom (or dad) is going to do it for you?
Sure, water is an issue, but hygiene and good manners are worth the %26quot;cost%26quot; of a little water.