Men: Will you sit and pee for the planet’s sake?

 By Eric Berger

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.

Environmental Science & Technology

So what’s a solution? Here’s the No-Mix Toilet.

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