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Urinal deodorizer blocks (commonly known as urinal cakes, urinal cookies, urinal biscuits (or jocularly piscuits), urinal donuts, toilet lollies, trough lollies, urinal pucks, toilet pucks, or urinal peons (alternately urinal pee-ons)) are small disinfectant blocks or tablets that are added to urinals.
Waterless urinals can be installed in high-traffic facilities, and in situations where providing a water supply may be difficult or where water conservation is desired. Waterless urinals have become rather common in Germany since about 2009 and can be found at restaurants, cinemas, highway rest stops, train stations and so forth.
Waterless urinals are often installed alongside UDDTs for the convenience of male users. Urinals also reduce the risk that male users that are standing over the UDDT for urination (instead of sitting or squatting) inadvertently urinate into the feces vault or feces container. It is generally advisable that all UDDT users sit or squat to urinate.
In cultures where males prefer to stand for urination, urinals are a good complementary solution. Urinals are commonly used in public toilets for male users. They collect urine separately from feces. So called "waterless urinals" use no water for flushing and therefore collect the urine undiluted. [1] There are many suppliers for waterless urinals.
Urinals which can be used in a similar fashion (facing the wall) by both sexes are an essential part of the future unisex toilet facilities. [50] [51] Berlin has now taken up the problem heroically and is planning urinals for women and men in all public toilets.
Urinals can be with automatic or manual flushing, or without flush water as is the case for waterless urinals. They can be arranged as single sanitary fixtures (with or without privacy walls) or in a trough design without privacy walls. The body posture for users of urinals is specifically the standing position.
These waterless urinal suppliers DO NOT warn clients that undiluted urine will eat through copper pipes and leak into the building fabric. The other problem is they remove water supply (not just turn it off) so client is forced to continue using even if displeased. 78.147.239.36 13:43, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
The waterless urinals were part of the plan to make the Comcast Center an environmentally friendly building because they would save an extra 1.6 million US gallons (6,100 m 3) of water a year. The plumbers union opposed the waterless urinals, claiming they were unsanitary and would provide less work for the plumbers.
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