Sentence examples for vacuum toilets from inspiring English sources

But vacuum toilets, akin to aeroplane ones, are gaining popularity.

Some humanitarian organisations are considering using vacuum toilets for crisis situations, because there is less waste to dispose of.

There are vacuum toilets that suck it all away to the composter using almost no water; there are foam flush toilets that are almost indistinguishable from conventional bowls.

But the best hope may be a plan to switch to vacuum toilets -- like those used on airliners and on some Amtrak trains -- that keep waste matter under a tight seal.

Mr. Klein said part of the problem is that the ships use vacuum toilets and if passengers (particularly those on upper decks) flush anything down the toilet other than human waste or toilet paper, the line of pipes from the top cabins to the bottom (and usually several cabins across) stop working.

Mobile loos may even inspire the next generation of fixed facilities they use so much less water than normal lavatories that architects are getting interested in installing vacuum toilets in new buildings, says Nicky Brown of Flexiloos, a vacuum supplier and manufacturer.

A high-end trailer with a vacuum toilet currently costs around £40,000 compared with £25,000-£30,000 for a recirculating one.

One Cambridge competitor, aerating her wines in her mouth, produced a sound akin to the pressurized rush of an airplane vacuum toilet.

A narrow hall led past the bathroom, with its mighty shower and gasping vacuum toilet, to a pair of white-sheathed mattresses on a platform mere inches above the floor.

Granted, those 13 hours spent drowning in someone else's BO gave me a lot of thinking time, but as I shovelled miscellaneous muck from a foil tray into my mouth as the plane began its descent, joining the mile-high club still felt as tempting as (and logistically not dissimilar from) jamming myself headfirst into the vacuum toilet and flushing.

This type uses an even greater force than vacuum-assisted toilets.