Build This Water-Saving Toilet Tank Sink
Save water with this stylish homemade toilet tank sink. Why doesn’t every toilet in drought-stricken regions have one of these?
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Composting Toilets
Your excrement contains the nutrients to fertilize and grow the food that feeds you. Learn about the science behind this age-old cycle.
Arduino + toilet = performance art
“Noise performer” 23N (a.k.a. Stéphane Perrin) has created a performance called Nunk on Droise. Simply put, the performance consists in dynamically generating noise music from the alcohol drunk by the performer during the performance. During the performance, the performer drinks alcohol and several breathalyzers are used to generate sounds and interacts with the visual. In […]
Toilet paper tube faces
At last, something to do with that pile of toilet paper tubes you’ve been saving all these years! (There’s no point denying it; we know how you are.) Then again, you’d be lucky to have the mad skillz of sculptor Junior Jacquet, who’s made a career out of sculpting cardboard. His toilet paper tube faces, […]
Greener toilets, healthier lives
Worldchanging covered an important conference on an often-neglected concept: An international conference on Ecological Safety, held earlier this month in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, called attention to a dangerous sanitation issue by offering an inspiring and feasible solution. The problem: international donors are still promoting pit latrines… but most families can’t afford to pay for safe emptying […]
Sprout in your toilet
The work with sprouting seeds is rinsing them: don’t rinse enough and you get really unappetizing mold in with your fresh greens. Here’s a solution to that problem that makes your toilet a little less wasteful. In action: Of course, you have the added benefit of the odd looks you’ll receive when you explain that […]
The Musical Inventions of Nick Crump
Gaze upon the awesomeness of Nick Crump’s toilet-turned-instrument, “The Bog Horn” submitted by Flickr member pocket-sized. Nick has created several instruments using plumbing hardware as part of the three year Confluence project, initiated by the environmental charity Common Ground. Nick describes the Bog Horn: It is classified as a brass instrument as the sound is […]
