I bet you don’t know what MIFSLA means. I sure didn’t. It stands for “mix first and separate later”. And I bet you thought you were doing the environment a favor by having a 1.6 gallon toilet in your house. Well, I’m here to tell you that that’s just not enough and you’re going to have to go back to remedial treehugging and bandanna-tying classes. Apparently, it’s no good to mix feces and urine and flush it all down the same drain because they have to be separated again in order to be disposed of properly without poisoning fish and probably causing all kinds of other nasty events. I’m not going to go into an explanation of how this all works because, frankly, it’s kind of a yucky (but oddly interesting) topic. The only thing you need to know is that the knight in shining porcelain is called a no mix toilet. One word of warning to men - for no mix toilets to work properly, everyone needs to sit down. Some men have the strange idea that it is a sign of weakness to sit and pee, but they’re going to have to get over that if we’re ever to keep the world from going down the drain, um…from going to pot, oh forget it - you know what I mean.

Here are a couple links for self study.

NoMix toilet by Roediger <–Click to flush!

MIFSLA

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