Man...whats the smell?

[Arcdelad]

A clarification - I am all for the environment...I dutifully recycle things like cans, paper, and plastic; I think about the carbon footprint of materials in clothing, food choices, and other items; AND I am "green" certified in the industry I am currently working in...

...having said all that, walking into the men's bathroom this morning I took a whiff, and something a little more pungent then usual stood out...generally the men's bathroom is a mixture of old sock and remnant of partially flushed poo, but this morning there was an acrid and unusually strong smell wafting through the air...

Ignoring it for the most part, other then to make sure I choked back the mouth vomit, I went about my business and came to the source of the problem - the waterless urinal.

For people who dont know (see picture attached), the waterless urinal is a new green building technology designed to eliminate flushing, and save the clean, drinkable water wasted by flushing, from a dude's pee routine...its a great concept in theory - man USED to pee in a hole, why not just duplicate the simple technology of our cavemen ancestors? They even went one step further - men (and anyone who has wiped pee off of the bathroom floor six feet away FROM the toilet can agree with this) are not the best aim when it comes to peeing (I personally put a picture of alar at the bottom of my toilet to ensure I have proper motivation to pee in the right place), so they put a backsplash on it and a WIDE catch basin up front, meaning even the most neanderthal of us men can make it in the requisite area...gravity is an age old technology, and its FREE...might as well use it right?

Welll..sure....except gravity is at a loss to control the ODORS which SEEP UP through the hole in this damn thing...imagine 10+ men whose diet consist of beer, coffee, and salmon all urinating their fetid smelling death water in a singular hole, where plumbing backup allowed it to fester, collaborate, and form new and unique smell producing life-forms...its almost like a game of Spore - minus the penis-beings (we men get that role)...

Saving water - GREAT - smelling the crappy diet of a 54 year old, cancer ridden old man? NOT so great...

...and we wont even talk about low gallon-per-minute flush toilets....ever taken a big crap and had to flush it FOUR times?

[Rocknlock]

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