Types of Toilet Flush Systems The traditional gravity-flush toilet is still the most common, but alternative flushing mechanisms offer advantages to this timeworn technology.

Scientists have been studying toilet plume for decades. They’ve found that plumes vary in magnitude depending on the type of toilet and flush mechanism.

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Michelle Lespron found a snake in her toilet and spent two days trying to get rid of it. Lespron, a resident in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, Arizona, called Rattlesnake Solutions to take ...

The company is giving people the opportunity to flush their ex down the toilet. You read that right — all your paper-based memories can be upcycled into toilet paper that can wipe away the pain.

The toilet was found in the Shaanxi province's Yueyang City Ruins and was likely used by high-ranking officials during the early years of China's first unified empire.

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Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in ...

The toilet itself was the same kind commonly seen in North American public restrooms: a lid-less unit accompanied by a cylindrical flushing mechanism—whether manual or automatic—that sticks up from ...