Sentences with phrase «waterless urinals»

Bathrooms with low - flow fixtures such as faucets and waterless urinals combine to cut water bills nearly in half.

* Installed an efficient, sensor - controlled lighting system * Opened up the interior to allow more natural light * Removed old louvers and replaced single glazed windows * Installed sunscreens to reduce glare and heat gain * Cleaned out and modified the mechanical systems * Specified waterless urinals and low - flow plumbing * Installed automatically monitored irrigation * Surrounded the site with pervious paving * Opted for GREENGUARD certified furniture * Incorporated recycled content products and healthy materials

Install low - flow toilets, waterless urinals, and tankless water heaters.

Other green features include restrooms with water - efficient toilets, waterless urinals, and biodegradable powder Boraxo soap.

Instead it has composting toilets and waterless urinals installed.

Four years ago, Local 690 of the Philadelphia Plumbers Union caused outrage in the green world by refusing to install waterless urinals in the Comcast center

Nankai Electric Railway has introduced 73 waterless urinals at 18 stations on the Nankai and Koya train lines in Osaka, Japan.

, covering the fight between the plumbers» unions and the manufacturers of waterless urinals.

In February we wrote What is the Cause of «Stinky Situation» With Waterless Urinals?

There has been some controversy over waterless urinals, notable opponents including the plumber's union of Philadelphia.

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In water - strapped countries like Australia, most people are familiar with the water - saving mantra «if it's brown, flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow» but waterless urinals have only recently started to become widely accepted.

With the introduction of environmentally friendly building standards such as the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating Systemâ «cents) standard by the US Green Building Council, waterless urinals are also becoming an important criteria for developers wishing to get green ratings for new buildings.

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Waterless urinals generally look and function much like a regular flush urinal and connect to the standard plumbing system.

The H2Zero system doesn't use a oil - based seal, like most waterless urinals, but instead uses a cartridge with a Bio Fresh deodorizing block inside that is activated upon use.

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There are lots of numbers attached to this: 90 % of post-industrial waste was diverted from landfills and recycled; 55 % of the building materials came from recycled products; the steel frame of the building is 90 % recycled; and the building saves 240,000 gallons per year with waterless urinals, motion - activated faucets and low - flush toilets.

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Caroma expects that their system will save the city millions of gallons of water each year just by replacing common urinals with their H2Zero waterless urinals.

The combination of waterless urinals and rainwater recycling enable it to operate with 94 percent less water than a conventionally designed building of the same size.

Twenty - two Waterless urinals save approximately 1,000,000 gallons of water per year.

Indoors, potable water consumption can be reduced by using low - flow plumbing fixtures and waterless urinals.

The Seaver building's low - flow toilets, waterless urinals, and other water - saving techniques save 35,200 gallons of water each year, or the equivalent of taking two 10 - minute showers every day for the entire year, doing 782 loads of laundry, flushing a normal toilet over 7,000 times, or doing 2,347 loads of dishes in a dishwasher.

Michael Zennie, «Students step over «rivers of urine» after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a school yellow... and it will cost $ 500,000 to fix,» Daily Mail, Jan. 30, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093979/Students-step-rivers-urine-green-bathrooms-plan-turns-high-school-yellow–cost-500-000-fix.html 31.

With notable features like heat - reflecting roof and windows, low - flow faucets and waterless urinals, self - dimming lights, and storm water filtration, Boston Logan Airport's new Terminal A has become the first airport to be LEED certified.

Also, 920,000 callons of fresh water are saved each year by the waterless urinals in the men's rooms.

Many of the building's features also conserve energy, from a lighting system with sensors that allow for maximizing the use of natural light to waterless urinals and low - flow dual - flush toilets that conserve water.

If you think about it, it's actually pretty wasteful, and the current drought is convincing facilities to consider waterless urinals.

In Los Angeles, the Staples Center — home for two professional basketball teams, the Lakers and the Clippers, and the Kings, an NHL club — saves on its utility bill with waterless urinals.

Why It Was Chosen: The Kohler Steward S Waterless Urinal completely eliminates unnecessary water waste, making it even more efficient than a dual - flush toilet and earning «water efficiency» points toward a LEED rating.

On a commercial scale:» A Waterless urinal saves on average 45,000 gallons of water a year.

There was a time when peeing on my mulch was my low - tech waterless urinal.

Wateless has also debuted the soybean waterless urinal, which uses 30 % of a soybean resin — «a renewable resource» according to the company — instead of fossil - fuel based oils for the plastic of the urinal.

If the «if it's yellow let it mellow» debate still rages in your home, have we got the solution for you: a waterless urinal.

Not exact matches

The «waterless» part of the design works like this: there's a «trapway» at the base of the urinal, in which the «sealing liquid» goes; since it's less dense than liquid waste, once your pee goes through, the liquid stays at the top of the trapway, providing a barrier that blocks odors and keeps maintenance to a minimum.