A toilet wax ring prevents leaks from the bottom of the toilet. They're durable and relatively simple to install.

A cheap, easy to maintain, "green" toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity and clean water will be trialed in 2016, possibly in Ghana. Dubbed the "Nano Membrane Toilet" by its ...

A team of Dutch scientists is working to address the world’s energy problems from the bottom up, in a manner of speaking. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as ...

The new toilet is targeted for countries without sewers and steady power. March 14, 2014— -- Most people probably don't think of recycling the things they flush down the toilet. Karl Linden, a ...

Chances are you used a toilet at some point today, and you didn’t think much of it. But if you used a port-a-potty, you probably did think about it. Maybe a lot. And it probably wasn’t pleasant. “No ...

Chemists have performed a techno-economic analysis of converting waste toilet paper into electricity. They propose a two-step process and calculate a cost per kWh comparable to that of residential ...

Consider the toilet — that humble porcelain bowl that spirits away our waste several times a day. It’s not a piece of technology that often gets flashy updates (though dual flushing, seat warming and ...

The VERIFY team recently published a story confirming planes are not actually spraying chemicals over unsuspecting people around the world. After we published that article, several VERIFY readers told ...

The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge asked engineers to dream up a replacement for the antiquated flush toilet. Michael Hoffmann and his team at Caltech responded with a solar-powered toilet that ...

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee with Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Samsung has announced that they have created a prototype of a toilet that would turn solid ...

Reduce, reuse, recycle … even when it comes to toilet paper, apparently. One Pennsylvania TikToker revealed that she makes reusable toilet paper out of old pajamas as she attempts to have a “low-waste ...