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It’s official! The Tyson Living Learning Center at Washington University in St. Louis has been certified as a Living Building by the International Living Building Institute.

Clivus Multrum is proud to have contributed to this sustainable endeavor. The composting toilets in the building are completely waterless and allow the nutrients in human waste to be recycled. The Greywater system uses water from sinks and water fountains to irrigate landscaping.

Read more from the WUSTL press release or the ILBI Certified Projects page.

Learn more about the composting toilet systems in the Project Gallery.

November 17-19, 2010
Location: McCormick Place – Chicago,  IL
http://www.greenbuildexpo.org/

Stop by Booth #1029 to discuss a project or check out the Foam-flush toilet.

Musconetcong Watershed Association’s River Resource Center has earned LEED Platinum certification! Clivus Multrum is proud to have played a role in helping the MWA conserve water and reduce infrastructure needs with composting toilets! One medium sized composter and a Foam-flush toilet can accomodate 80 uses a day.

Here’s their press release:

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Rockefeller State Park recently re-built a restroom to accomodate visitors. The new restroom uses a Clivus Multrum composting toilet system that was installed in a restroom that previously stood on the site.

As the first park in the State of Alabama to install a Clivus Multrum composting toilet the Tuscaloosa County Parks & Recreation Authority have a note-worthy restroom.  The building stands at the parking area for a the Binion Creek Boat Ramp which offers a multi-lane boat launch, ample parking and floating courtesy docks.

One M54 Trailhead Two-Stall serves 44,000 visits a year and uses no water at all to do so.

The building was delivered as a kit and assembled on site. A custom mason finish was added to three walls to suit the location.

Part of the Hershey Golf Collection, Hershey Links is 175 acres of traditional links style golf in Hummelstown, PA. Since it’s opening in 2007 the course has won awards from a number of sources from Golf Magazine to the Zagat Survey.

The new  M54 Trailheads are located on the 6th and 14th holes. They were delivered as kits and assembled and appointed on site. Both Foam-flush toilets and waterless urinals are available to ensure golfers’ comfort.

The Course has made arrangements with Clivus Multrum for regular maintenance visits from a local contractor.

From the article: “The Canaan Valley Institute teaches sustainability and green practices. So when the institute built its new Research and Education Center, its leaders wanted to apply those same lessons to the building.”

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Source: WTRF, Wheeling, WV

The New York Times covers the new Subway at the Freedom Tower Construction site. Clivus Multrum composting toilets serve the workers and will rise with the building as it goes up. The Subway restaurant will provide lunch in the sky so workers don’t have to travel as far. All the food waste from Subway will be composted in a Clivus Multrum composter and eventually used as fertilizer.

A few notes on the NYT article: “The waterless toilets and urinals are cleaned by negative pressure that pulls the waste into an evaporator that turns much of the sewage into steam.” is not quite accurate. The negative pressure neither cleans the toilets nor moves the waste. Here’s what we think the author was getting at: The waterless toilets and urinals are kept odorless by negative pressure that pulls air down through the composters and out through a chimney. Gravity and a small amount of soap convey the waste to a tank where liquids are separated and pumped to an evaporator while feces are composted. Both these processes dramatically reduce the volume of waste.

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Source: New York Times, New York City, NY

The Washington Post travel section went to western Maine for an escape from the noise of the city. They found a cozy cabin in the woods with no cars in sight and composting toilets.

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Source: Washington Post, Washington, DC

The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods hosted an event in honor of the opening of the Picardo P-Patch community Garden’s new M54 Trailhead. A contest was held to name the Trailhead, Pic-a-loo sounds like a winner.

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Source: KOMO News, Seattle WA