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http://www.popsci.com/environment/gallery/2009-06/future-poop

Yep. :eyebrow:

If you want to stir up controversy, one aspect of green toilets I've never heard mentioned, (and which probably wouldn't be well received in western countries), is comparing the western style sit-down toilet to the Asian style "squat-pot" toilet. Since the human body is designed to defecate from a squatting deposition, there is a lot less fouling and MUCH less toilet paper needed when using a squat-pot toilet (or squatting while taking a dump in the woods) when compared to the usual results when using a sit-down toilet. But I can imagine how a "save our forests by banning sit-down toilets" campaign by environmentalists would go over in this country. The toilet paper manufacturers would also be lobbying hard against it, but the sewage treatment guys might favor it as it would reduce the carbon load they are having to process.