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Urinals: Can't Flush This

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Urinal1_small A quirky look at a new trend in men's bathrooms: urinals without water. No flushing means saving water and saving money. But... don't they smell? Surprisingly, they're more sanitary and smell less than the urinals that flush.

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A quirky look at a new trend in men's bathrooms: urinals without water. No flushing means saving water and saving money. But... don't they smell? Surprisingly, they're more sanitary and smell less than the urinals that flush.

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Todd Melby

Posted on July 26, 2006 at 06:00 AM | Permalink

Review of Urinals: Can't Flush This

The Great Lakes Radio Consortium seems to be on a roll. The Michigan Radio-based environmental news service is posting a lot of quirky stories on PRX. And I like them. This one is on waterless urinals. Producer Lester Graham interviews a salesman in an echo chamber of a men's WC as he explains how it works, and then the man says, "As a result, you have no odor." So Graham rings up a kidney specialist to get an explanation on why urine smells. So why is this an environmental story? The "no-flush, no-water urinals" save water ... a natural resource.

Broadcast History

Offered to GLRC stations in October 2004. Not dated.

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NO-WATER URINALS
Lester Graham

There's a change happening in certain restrooms across the country. With growing concerns about wasting water, companies have been looking at ways to use less water to flush... and now a new product uses no water at all. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham reports:

Alright... this is a story for the guys. I mean, you women might be interested, but this is really a guy thing. They're taking the flush away from us. You've probably noticed that urinals have been changing from manual flush to some kind of automatic or motion-detecting sensor flush. Now a few companies are producing urinals with no handle, no button, no sensor. Companies such as Sloan Valve Company, Waterless Company and Falcon Waterfree Technologies are making urinals without flushers.

Bruce Fleisher is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Falcon Waterfree Tec...
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