On average, a family of four will use about 98 rolls of toilet paper in a year. When people spend more time at home, those at home 24/7 will use 140% more toilet paper than those who go to school or ...

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In 2012, the Gates Foundation awarded a nearly $810,000 grant to Cranfield University to help develop what would eventually become the Nano Membrane Toilet. Unlike other toilets, this unit doesn't ...

A new self-contained, waterless toilet promoted by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and his Gates Foundation may be a relatively inexpensive way to address the thousands of cesspools, many located ...

For most people, a toilet is something we only think about when we need it or when it breaks. Or, when there’s a pandemic and everyone is rushing to get toilet paper. However, in this day and age when ...

Smart phones, smart homes, smart cars — everything in your life is getting increasingly more intelligent. And that includes our bathrooms; faucets, mirrors, and toilets are getting connected. That’s ...

It's probably a joke, but at CES, you never know. The Charmin GoLab features a Bluetooth-enabled toilet paper delivery robot, a porta-potty VR headset, and a smell sensor that tells you when it's safe ...

Wet wipes may be an improvement on traditional toilet paper, but even ones that say “flushable” on the package are not. Studies have shown that you can flush anything down the toilet, like urine, ...

Today’s smart toilets (yes, that’s a thing) analyze what goes into toilet bowls, rather than the people sitting on top of them. That’s something a new device being developed by researchers from the ...

Have you ever considered how access to proper sanitation affects health, dignity and the environment? In a groundbreaking move, the pioneering water and housing products company LIXIL secured its ...

Kohler is making a splash (sorry) at CES today with the announcement of everything from smart faucets, to showers that sing along with you, to a toilet that looks like it's from the set of Star Trek.