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Eco toilet unveiled in Washington

Mount Rainier National Park unveils a commode that uses cedar chips. KOMO's Robert Santos flushes out the story

With all the snows still around the Cougar Rock Campgrounds, there were no visitors inside. But we did find a group of park rangers and some Japanese businessmen celebrating the opening of a new campground toilet.

So what's the big deal? Well, this is an eco-friendly toilet. Get this, instead of using chemicals, it uses cedar chips to treat the waste. The heat generated during decomposition kills any bacteria, and the waste materials are vaporized in one of its tanks. The water used is purified and is re-circulated, so it's like a self-contained sewerage treatment plant.

The inventor came all the way from Japan for the dedication ceremonies. "They flew in yesterday... "

"You never replace the chips. You may add water occasionally, but does have a rain-catch system which will add water to the tank, and it's so easy to maintain it."

"And just like most toilets in Japan, this seat is heated. Yeah, trust me, it's also made to fully flushable, no waste water, no sludge and the best part about it, it's odor-free. "

And it's a gift to Mount Rainier from a Japanese environmental group active on Mount Fuji, which gets more climbers in a day than our mountain gets for the whole summer.

"Now it's about over, over forty units we are working in Mount Fuji and been, has contributed to the significant improvement for those waste management in Mount Fuji area."

"You know we have some systems we're experimenting at Camp Muir with different solar systems. We have a lot of backcountry use to kind of figure out what's the best and then when they said, they wanted to donate this as a model for us to experiment, well, then it was welcomed."

A seventy thousand dollar gift for all to enjoy.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

ranger: noun

A wanderer; a rover.

campground: noun

An area used for setting up a camp or holding a camp meeting.
cedar: noun

Any of a large number of evergreen trees having fragrant wood of great durability. Arborvitae is sometimes called northern white cedar.

sludge: noun

Semisolid material such as the type precipitated by sewage treatment.

odor: noun

The property or quality of a thing that affects, stimulates, or is perceived by the sense of smell.

backcountry: noun

A sparsely inhabited rural region.

文本参考中文翻译

近日利用香柏削片制成的厕所在雷尼尔山国家公园亮相。KOMO新闻记者Robert Santos为我们详细介绍。

Cougar Rock营地周围依然白雪皑皑，游客稀少。但我们却发现了一些守林人和一些日本商人在庆祝新型营地厕所的出现。

那么这有什么特殊意义吗？这是一个环保厕所。关键点是，它不是利用化学物质来处理废物，而是用香柏削片。香柏分解过程中产生的热量可以杀死所有细菌，而分解产生的物质则在其中一个水槽中蒸发，所用的水是经过纯化的，而且是循环流动的，就好象包含一个内在的污水处理厂。

该环保厕所的发明人从日本千里迢迢奔赴这里参加奉献仪式。“他们昨天乘飞机来到这里……”

“你不需要替换这些削片，只是偶尔可以加点水，但是这里有一个收集雨水的系统，会自动向水槽中加水，所以保养起来很简单。”

“就好象日本的大部分厕所一样，是经过加热的。是的，相信我，它是可以完全自动冲水的，没有一点废水，没有一点污泥，最好的一点是，完全没有气味。”

这是来自富士山的环保组织送给雷尼尔山的礼物。富士山每天接待的登山者比我们整个夏季接待的都多。

“现在我们在富士山有40多个这种系统，为改善富士山地区的废物管理问题作出了重要贡献。”

“你知道，我们在大本营Camp Muir正在利用不同的太阳能系统进行试验。我们在边远地区也进行了许多应用，试图发现哪一种是最好的。然后他们说，想将这个系统赠送给我们当作模型来实验，我们非常欢迎。”

这份礼物价值七万美元，人人可以享用。

单词注解：
ranger：守林人
campground：营地，露营场所
cedar：西洋杉，香柏
sludge：污泥
backcountry：边远地区