Up to 265,000 gallons of urine splashback could be prevented with snazzy new urinal designs
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Researchers have invented two new urinal designs that could significantly reduce the amount of urine splashback, keeping public restrooms cleaner.

Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of “ill-aimed pee.”

      • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        10 days ago

        The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day. Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.

        The widespread adoption of these urinal designs “would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility,” the researchers wrote.

        They should drop everything and do this first thing.

      • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Not sure if youre sarcastic or not (I was), but there has actually been research if the nutrients in urine can be used as fertiliser and I believe the result was positive.