Your Quest (should you choose to accept it) is to
Get your Flush Right (we're talking Toilets)
Find out what you can flush down the loo. There is a clue in the title of this quest (#3Ps - Pee, Poo, Paper*).
Flushing the wrong thing down the toilet can lead to blockages, sewers flooding and the drains overflowing. Then the things that should be going to the water treatment plant end up in the environment instead.
Don't believe us? Your Water Company (they send you the water bills) will have a list of things that you can and can't flush. Check out their website and make sure everyone in the house knows what not to flush.
Make sure all the clean water you use to flush your toilet(s) with is #notwasted. Depending on your toilet(s), either fix a leaky cistern and/or if your flush toilet was installed before 2001 consider using a “hippo” or other water displacement device in the toilet cistern. Older toilets use more water than newer ones. Simply by putting something in the cistern you can save water. If it becomes necessary to flush twice you should put a smaller object in.
Leak? Sometimes you can hear if your toilet is dripping into the bowl. Sometimes you need food dye**.
well, do you know that old saying?
"If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down". You get the idea.
No? You want us to spell it out?
You don't have to flush the toilet every time you urinate. Urine is sterile (unless you are ill), so most of the time it's quite safe to leave it in the toilet bowl for a little while at least - obviously not until it's smelly or so full of paper it won't flush. Maybe flush once every two or three goes? Okay, okay so this is easier to do this level at home - when the whole household knows and agrees. So start there. Keep it #mellowman.
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Find out what you can flush down the loo. There is a clue in the title of this quest (#3Ps - Pee, Poo, Paper*).
Flushing the wrong thing down the toilet can lead to blockages, sewers flooding and the drains overflowing. Then the things that should be going to the water treatment plant end up in the environment instead.
Don't believe us? Your Water Company (they send you the water bills) will have a list of things that you can and can't flush. Check out their website and make sure everyone in the house knows what not to flush.
Make sure all the clean water you use to flush your toilet(s) with is #notwasted. Depending on your toilet(s), either fix a leaky cistern and/or if your flush toilet was installed before 2001 consider using a “hippo” or other water displacement device in the toilet cistern. Older toilets use more water than newer ones. Simply by putting something in the cistern you can save water. If it becomes necessary to flush twice you should put a smaller object in.
Leak? Sometimes you can hear if your toilet is dripping into the bowl. Sometimes you need food dye**.
well, do you know that old saying?
"If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down". You get the idea.
No? You want us to spell it out?
You don't have to flush the toilet every time you urinate. Urine is sterile (unless you are ill), so most of the time it's quite safe to leave it in the toilet bowl for a little while at least - obviously not until it's smelly or so full of paper it won't flush. Maybe flush once every two or three goes? Okay, okay so this is easier to do this level at home - when the whole household knows and agrees. So start there. Keep it #mellowman.
