Sitting Pretty: the international green bathroom hunt
From the moment our escape-the-States-before-the-careers-and-babies trip started, my intended and I spent a lot of time talking about toilets. At Orion (an excellent progressive mag), Nicole McClelland describes her international experiences of six months of variable lavatories in Sitting Pretty. By the end, while still committed to a more ecologically sound waste disposal system than the western W.C., she also finds that the Australian method of just watering the lawn wherever one happens to be, to be a tad on the relaxed side. The article also has some generally useful information about composting toilets, alternatives to toilet paper, and how far is too far. [GT]
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