Enviro-Friendly Toilets - Sludge Dread »
The environment is a big issue these days and bathrooms have long been dragged into the fray. Environment-friendly toilets typically just those which use less water and usually less power to pull down beached turds. Even fancier settings effect the entire stall by using motion sensors to not only flush, but turn off the lights when it's apparently not in use. The most advanced may even judge people:
In this case, the arbitrary rule revolves around my workplace’s gung-ho attitude toward being as “green” as possible. I’ve detailed some of these policies in the past (using rainwater, massive recycling programme) but this is a new one. The toilets have motion sensors that automatically shut off the lights if they detect no motion after a set period of time (it seems to be set at about ten minutes.)Read the rest at Mr. Angry's blog.
This would obviously not be something you’d even notice in a highly trafficked toilet. Not an issue for Alan Jones in other words. But I’ve recently moved desks to a half-empty section and as a result, the nearby toilet doesn’t see a lot of business. Often when I go into this toilet the lights are off and they switch on as I enter and trigger the motion detector. Noticing this had prompted me to wonder how long it took them to switch off. One day I found out.
