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Jun 07, 2023

Sustainable Toilet Designs Use Less Water, Create Compost (Correct)

Visitors to the Finnish pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale are

Visitors to the Finnish pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale are greeted with an unlikely sight at a festival typically devoted to the avant-garde and newfangled: a no-flush outhouse toilet.

While the structure, known as a Huussi, may seem a bit primitive to some, it's long been a popular toilet design in rural parts of Finland because it requires no connection to water supplies: It processes waste not by flushing it away, but by converting it to compost in a hay-filled container. It's a design that's making a comeback because it saves water and recirculates waste back into the ecosystem — both essential goals in a ...

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