Students step over “rivers of urine” after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a FL school yellow – and it will cost $500K to fix. Going “green” – it means paying truckloads of green to implement expensive, new ideas that don’t work in place of cheap, old ones that do. And that doesn’t include the cost of cleaning up the mess made by the expensive, new ideas when they fail.
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This story of the kids stepping over rivers of urine caused by a green company , makes me blue!
Typical libtards. the toilets are about 500 cartriges are about 50. do the math they saved 100 bucks off the water bill, how many urinals did they install ?
they spent and are going to spend more then the $ 500k. Penny wise and pound foolish!
This is a shame to see. Those of you that commented on how dumb it is to think that the pipes can remain in tact with out any water are so spot on.
LiquidBreaker makes a product called The Green Cartridge. It is a retrofit cartridge that goes into existing water less urinals.. It works wonders because it leverages silicon skirts that encourage the maintenance staff to clean with water and green acid based cleansers.
It last a long time and is cost effective. Breaks up the nasty urine struvite build up in the plumbing and is really a green product. Check it out if you care http://www.thegreencartridge.com. Such a shame to see incidents like this occur when they can be remedied.
Oh my god, I went to school in Boca. Not Spanish River, however I had friends who did.
Of course, that was before all this "green" and P.C. crap.
Copper waste pipes? I guess black iron or PVC wasn't good enough for a big cost savings?
And it comes from a European newspaper. I'm sure the DNC ordered their sucklings in the media to ignore this story.
They're fortunate they didn't get talked into self composting waterless toilets. BIG BIG MESS THERE!!!
The only "waterless" urine disposal system I ever saw was years ago at a relatives farm...It was a hole in the ground with a little house built over it...Other than gravity and peeing into a hole in the ground, I can't even imagine how this was suppose to work??? I bet some engineering genius who drives a Chevy volt, and has an Obama 2012bumper sticker on it came up with this. Sorry, but what a piss poor idea.
That is exactlyu what I was wondering. WHat rocket scientist ever thought this would work without at least a small flush to clear thepipes! ANd aI am not exactly an engineer. If I could see the problem instantly, how come the "experts" couldn't?
Liberal engineering, make something, anything to spend money on, doesn't matter if it works...we will just clean it up later at taxpayer expense and shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell the media.
Follow the yellow brick road to B.O.
I thought it was the yellow snow road.
Another green turd like the Volt , like the wind farms ( they must love killing all those birds ) , like Soylndra , like pouring billions of our money to jump start the green industry , in CHINA , like all those abandoned wind mills , that more than anything symbolize the utter failure of failed thought .
But this is urine , but its caused by the green turd thought that went before it. I think all those NUTS ( national ultimate thinkers ) ought to have this type of plumbing in their homes and buisneses , to remind them when you start with a garbage brain , and come up with yet another garbage idea , its the same as having shit and piss everywhere .
A classic example of what happens when you mix Union labor with green technology.
How's that song go: "Look for the urine label"?