Last fall Erin and Ashley were kind enough to 
invite me to talk about GreenLight on their radio show, Do It Together. Off-air, Erin brought up that she doesn’t like using the bathroom at her brother Richard’s apartment because they abide by the rule, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s brown, flush it down” in order to save water. This has resulted in a stinky bathroom, even after they flush. I’ve run into this problem myself and have modified the “golden” rule to lessen the stank. So here it is…
LORA’S RULE OF THREE!
That is to say, I flush my toilet after I pee in it three times– whether or not there’s a brown. This clears it out a little more often and lessens the chances of a toilet paper clog.
Some other tips for your toilet:
-Keep the lid down! It’s a simple and effective tool to keeping the pee-smell in.
-Clean your toilet sometimes!
-If you’re in the market for a new toilet, check out a dual-flush or composting toilet! Dual-flush toilets have a button for pee and poo, using more water for the latter. Composting toilets hold waste in a container in the floor below your toilet. Every time you use a composting toilet you add a scoop of saw dust so that the waste decomposes and doesn’t smell. So it’s kind of like a stinkless composting toilet where you can use the finished product in your flower bed!
The takehome is that toilets use a lot of water, but you can do your part to use less. Older toilets use 3.5 gallons every time you flush while newer toilets use 1.6 gallons per flush. All of that flushing means that toilets account for 40% of indoor water use.
So! How often do you flush?