Today's free Metro newspaper had an item about a "bizarre green gadget", where a washing machine is mounted above a toilet. The water used by the washing machine gets used again when the toilet is flushed.
I'm not sure why the story, which shows a picture of the invention, calls the concept bizarre. Maybe it isn't really worth the effort, but reusing water sounds a good idea to me.
I suspect that the invention is actually Hungarian Pal Ökrös’ Electronic Greywater Reusing Washing Machine patent specification. It has an interesting main picture, given below.
More fruitful, perhaps, in saving water would be to use recycled water from washbasins in public toilets. My father told me some thirty years ago after a business trip to Japan that he saw there the idea of water used in washbasins then being used in the cisterns to flush the toilets.
If you think about it, why can't a home bathroom use the water from baths/showers for the toilets in the home?
Posted by: BenG | 23 May 2008 at 18:21
Dear Mr van Dulken !
Thank you for putting this invention on your blog. I appreciate very much that you gave some publicity for this invention, because up till now the mainstream media have managed successfully to disregard totally this invention. (they subsist by selling publicity space to companies whoes interest is hurt by that invention).
Best regards,
Pál Ökrös, www.grey-water.com
Posted by: Paul OKROS | 04 July 2009 at 13:07