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In a dry composting toilet, the waste is evaporated or digested to gas ( mostly carbon dioxide ) and vented, so a toilet produces only a few pounds of compost every six months.
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In cases where it is not possible to use flush-toilets operating on water, dry solar toilets are now advocated, instead of regular composting toilets.
A composting toilet is a dry toilet that uses a predominantly aerobic processing system that treats excreta, typically with no water or small volumes of flush water, via composting or managed aerobic decomposition.
Drainage of excess liquid or leachate via a separate drain at the bottom of the composter is featured in some manufactured units, as the aerobic composting process requires moisture levels to be controlled ( ideally 50 ± 10 %): too dry, and the mass decomposes slowly or not at all ; too wet and anaerobic organisms thrive, creating undesirable odors ( cf.
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) It is designed to clean better than dry toilet paper after defecation, and may be useful for women during menstruation.
These bidet toilets have been popular in countries like India since British colonial days, as the use of just dry toilet paper to clean the perineal area is considered dirty and unhygienic.
One cannot be infected by shaking someone's hand, by hugging or " dry " kissing someone, by using the same toilet or drinking from the same glass as an HIV-infected person, or by being exposed to coughing or sneezing by an infected person.
" Some prisons have offered the use of a " dry cell " — i. e., a cell with no toilet facilities, but only a container for the prisoner's waste — as an accommodation to inmates who are hindered by paruresis from providing an observed urine sample.
In one episode, however, he does use the toilet to remove an alien carrot embedded in his rectum, an experience he describes as " dry ".
However, in 1957, the average age of starting toilet training was still under one year, at 11 months, and 90 % of children were dry during the day by 2 years.
A pit toilet is a dry toilet system which collects human excrement in a large container and range from a simple slit trench to more elaborate systems with ventilation.
Depending on their size, these courtyards may be landscaped spaces for quiet reflection, places to dry laundry, vents for cooking fumes or toilet odours or spaces for any number of household activities.
This makes it so that these icons fade when the wearer wets the Pull-Up, discouraging him / her from urinating in the Pull-Up, and to use the toilet instead, and as an incentive for staying dry for long periods of time.
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So if a green stud makes a carpenter or a drywall finisher or anybody else waste even 20 seconds, the green stud becomes more expensive than a dry stud.
The World's largest MSW co-composter is the Edmonton Composting Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which turns 220, 000 tonnes of residential solid waste and 22, 500 dry tonnes of biosolids per year into 80, 000 tonnes of compost.
For example, dry cleaners, automobile repair shops, hospitals, exterminators, and photo processing centers may all generate hazardous waste.
Increasing the heat under pressure cookers designed for pressures below 15 psi will not make the food cook faster ; it will only waste energy, possibly spoil food, increase the risk of boiling dry, and reduce the life of the gasket and other rubber parts.
Works to dry the numerous waste lands and the reprise of mining activities favoured the arrival of settlers and immigrants, from Veneto, and after the World War II Istrians and Dalmatians, from Yugoslavia.
Because of delays in construction, a number of nuclear power plants in the United States have resorted to dry cask storage of waste on-site indefinitely in nearly impervious steel and concrete casks.
A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds a castle, other building or town, historically a sewage passage for the castle waste, which caused great disease.
Indoor systems, especially stalls and pens ( i. e., ‘ dry ,’ not straw-lined systems ) allow for the easy collection of waste.
Contaminants from animal wastes can enter the environment through pathways such as through leakage of poorly constructed manure lagoons or during major precipitation events resulting in either overflow of lagoons and runoff from recent applications of waste to farm fields, or atmospheric deposition followed by dry or wet fallout.
Wigeon also commonly feed on dry land, eating waste grain in harvested fields and grazing on pasture grasses, winter wheat, clover, and lettuce.
The back end includes the management of the used nuclear fuel in either a cooling pond or dry storage, before it is disposed of into an underground waste store or nuclear reprocessing.
B. davidii in particular is a great coloniser of dry open ground ; in urban areas in the United Kingdom, it often self-sows on waste ground or old masonry, where it grows into a dense thicket, and is listed as an invasive species in many areas.
More accurately, there had been two collections independent of each other: wet garbage ( including food waste ), and bottles and cans ; dry combustible trash was burned in incinerators until Los Angeles County ordered an end to backyard trash burning in 1957, when Poulson was still mayor.
DUCRETE, a concrete made with uranium dioxide aggregate instead of gravel, is being investigated as a material for dry cask storage systems to store radioactive waste.
Brassica juncea growing in waste streams has been found to contain up to 10 % of its dry weight in lead.
Grant's view of this is that it was " an idle story " and quoted Lord Hailes ' derivation from Anglo-Saxon meaning " waste or dry habitation ".
Starting in the late 19th century, barrels were largely superseded by corrugated fiberboard boxes for storage and transport of dry goods, and in the mid 20th century, steel drums began to be used for the storage and transport of fluids such as water, oils and hazardous waste.
From there he decided to focus on Hindustan to the southeast, particularly the highly fertile lands of the Punjab region since south eastern Afghanistan ( where he was from ) was mostly mountains, dry deserts and the fertile lands had been poorly harvested and gone to waste during the reign of the previous rulers.
Snakes may deliver such a " dry bite " rather than waste their venom on a creature too large for them to eat.
The waste lands were then great level plains covered with stunted bushes and dry heath.
Efforts have been made to improve sanitation systems in India, including laws that ban the construction of dry toilets, and the manual removal of human waste.
These waste products consist mainly of uric acid, urea and amino acids, and are normally converted into dry pellets before being disposed.
High levels of pesticide have been found in rainwater in Europe with the highest concentrations occurring in the first rain immediately after a dry spell ; the concentration of these and other contaminants are reduced significantly by diverting the initial flow of water to waste as described above.
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All he cares about is his whisky and that dry crack in his face.
Much of the dirt and leaf stain is easily removed when damp, but requires dynamite if allowed to dry.
a stream or pond which is attractive in the springtime may become stagnant or dry in late summer.
The best chance, of course, is offered by gently sloping terrain where the water remains close to the surface and where the air is dry, so that a high evaporation leaves salty deposits which permit only sparse plant growth.
In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.
Experience showed, however, that it is very difficult to paint a dark umber background in fresco that will not dry out spotty and uneven.
) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.
Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.
Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.
Straw is useful in binding the brick together and allowing the brick to dry evenly.
Cob is spread and piled around a frame and allowed to air dry for several months before habitation.
Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.
The bench is tiled and in order to dry up quickly after it rains, and to stop people from sitting in the wet part of the bench, small bumps were installed by Gaudí.
The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do well in tropical environments since they require a dry resting period between leaf growth and flower spike production.
Rainfall is irregular, but usually dry during the north-east, and very wet during the south-west, monsoons.
The climate is dry, temperate, and continental, with extreme variations between seasons.
The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.
Canberra is notorious for hot, dry summers, and cold winters with occasional fog and frequent frosts.
Audio unprocessed by reverb and delay is metaphorically referred to as " dry ", while processed audio is referred to as " wet ".
* Desolvation ( drying ) – the solvent is evaporated and the dry sample nano-particles remain ;
A persistent dry cough is a relatively common adverse effect believed to be associated with the increases in bradykinin levels produced by ACE inhibitors, although the role of bradykinin in producing these symptoms remains disputed by some authors.
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