An important day has come and gone and we missed celebrating it.

Of course, we’re talking about Low Flow Toilet Blow-up Day, celebrated on April 27.

LFTBU Day is the reasoned response to the last big environmental conservation idea: low flow toilets. Like most rushed-through, well-intentioned environmental products, low-flow toilets suffered from the most basic of flaws: they didn’t work.

The low flow toilet required as many as 4 flushes to work correctly; instead of saving water, they used more.

Most people who had the misfortune of installing a low flow toilet can truly appreciate the following video.

The next video is from the same source as the one above. Although no LFTs can be seen, the marksmen in the video might well have been disgruntled former owners of the LFT.

There are still die-hards who insist that the low-flow models work just fine.

These are likely the same people who buy Segways and put buckets of water on their roof to let the sun “do the work of a water heater”.

For the rest of humanity outside this tiny circle of low-flow toilet believers, we’ll let Low Flow Toilet Blow-Up Day serve as our judgment on the old-new-fangled water closets.

by Mondoreb
image: RidesAPaleHorse; boomershoot.com
Source: boomershoot.com


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