Toilet Facts and World Toilet Day
Last Wednesday was World Toilet Day and Josh filled us in on the details, including the actions of health and conservation authorities in Australia, who called on the world to get rid of those flushing toilets already. The founder of the World Toilet Organization, Jack Sims, called the current flushing toilets unsustainable and urged a move to dry toilets. In honor of World Toilet Day, newscom.au treated us to some toilet facts:
- The average person spends three years of their life on the toilet.
- The average person uses about 6 gallons of drinkable water, per day, for flushing the toilet.
- An estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide don't have access to proper toilet facilities. Lack of suitable toilets and sanitation kills 1.8 million people per year.
- And a total random and useless fact, most toilets flush in the key of E flat. (?)
[Via Chemically Green]
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12-03-2008 @ 10:17AM
Steven R. Mason said...
Hello and greetings from Chemically Green. Thank you for featuring CG'S post "Save the Planet, Quit Flushing".
This post made the Reddit front page and had nearly 3000 views. An interesting post with a lot of funny comments.
Again thanks and have a great Thanksgiving 2008.
Steven R. Mason
Chemically Green
"Green Solutions for Today"
CG
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2-21-2009 @ 8:46AM
Charles said...
Toilet Facts that may surprise the Cr*p out of you
1. In the US we flush close to 5 billion gallons of water everyday
2. The average person Flushes 19 gallons of water per day
3. Toilet Use per flush can be approximated by measuring the volume of water inside the toilet tank (width x length x height) and dividing by 231.
4. A family of four uses 280 gallons of water a day indoors, and toilets account for about 27 percent of that
5. A dual flush toilet saves up to 4,000 gallons of water per year
-- This stunning report brought to you by the Macus Trade Research Team
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