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Squat toiley advantage - Grandma won't be sitting in there for half an hour browsing readers digest.
More than likely Grandma and Grandpa won't be using a squatter. Unless, they are in top shape with good joints. In addition, I am unsure how one can actually read the Readers Digest or any other thing in that positiion.
It's not only Eastern countrys.... Lots of crappers in Russia are squaters......outside ones at that! MY biggest complaint was that they could not figure out a simple hand hold on the side of the wall. Be careful of overconsumption in local adult beverages as it often results in a more liquidy discharge leading to much shoe cleaning............
I don't know about anybody else, but I used an outhouse growing up.
It's bad enough that toilets went to lesser water usage and don't flush properly, but there is NO WAY I would use one of these squat things the way they are described. Just no way.
I'll green up in other areas, but I like my toilet the way it is.
Whether you sit or squat when you defecate, it's not going to make a difference as far as being 'green.' It's like asking whether it would be more 'green' to start hopping on one foot rather than walking, or grunting like a Neanderthal rather than speaking a language--it won't change a thing as far as the environment is concerned.
And the only thing you'll 'gain' by not using TP is a skid mark (a nice brown stripe on the rear of your pants) and an offensive odor, which of course IS bad for everyone's environment.
Depending on where a person is at the time of need...you will have NO choice but to use the LOCAL facilities be what they may be.
As a little boy in the mid 1930's I was accustomed to the little bldg out back with the 1/2 moon window. Then my dad was building us a house with the large cement thing in back and inside the house a toilet that had the disappearing water when I pushed the lever.
A stint in Japan showed me the Japanese toilet and the saving/usage of the excrement via the honey bucket parades.
Many ex service men know of what I speak if they are from the Korea or Nam time period.
Many folks are not privy to the "squat" term or have had experiences with the usages etc.
When in Rome a person has to do as those in Rome do when nature has it's calling.
But the toilet paper in a the sea rations were a very important item. It is said that one of the last things Yamamoto did while dressing in his unifrom before going on the flight to visit his troops on those pacific islands that ended in his being shotdown was to stuff some toilet paper in his pocket. Any ex-GI can relate to that.
I'd be more concerned about the transaction going into the toilet to be flushed as opposed to whether a toilet is green or not. If you've got to go badly, there is one issue more pressing than how a toilet is made. Just make danged sure the waste du jour is gone after you flush.
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Personally, I'd Rather Sit
