14 DAY TRIAL // If a large scale project is implemented in San Francisco, poop could go green, triggering important water savings and financial benefits. This conclusion belongs to Eric Brooks, chair of the San Francisco Green Party's sustainability group, who thinks composting toilets are the next best thing.
Brooks is eager to experience the benefits of an innovative toilet composting system that would respond to many issues currently experienced by authorities: lack of funds, centuries-old sewers, the necessity to preserve water and the need to create new jobs. Apparently, the new idea has it all covered.
The main bump in the road is that the new concept costs more than a conventional toilet, but the financial advantage could be significant enough to recoup the investment, in a relatively short period of time, Digg reports.
Brooks indicates composting toilets can efficiently replace the ancient ones, saving up to 5 billion gallons of water every year, while also lowering the amount of sterilization chemicals currently required.
It appears that organic composting is a much more reliable technique than the standard separation of human waste from sewage water, meant to decrease treatment costs and chemical usage.
Moreover, as climate change effects could become more noticeable, triggering water scarcity, composting toilets should provide an efficient answer to this problem.
At this point in time, the initiator of this project wants to determine whether or his project is economically feasible and such units can be placed all across San Francisco. He has been supporting this strategy for more than a year.
"Businesses will want to switch to something that saves them more water, just as they wanted to switch to things that saved them electricity. If we get ahead of this in time over next few decades, we will be solving a climate-induced water crisis before it happens," notes Brooks.
He intends to revolutionize local business community, while promoting composting toilets already popular in Seattle, New York and Austin.