A Short Report On Restroom Hygiene

No-Flush^TM urinals improve rest room hygiene: Urine itself is normally sterile, 0% bacterial. Fecal matter is 95% bacterial, and may include pathogens.

Microbes, bacteria and viruses thrive in moisture, but they die when dried. There are surface areas in water flush urinals that are constantly damp where bacterial growths appear. These growth colonies are seeded by fecal material carried in air-borne droplets and aerosols that were produced by the turbulence in flushing the rest room's toilets. When the rest room urinals are themselves flushed they in turn create aerosols containing the new-growth bacteria, and inject still more microbes into the rest room atmosphere.

Installing No-Flush^TM urinals with predominantly dry surfaces and no flushing actions lessen rest room visitor exposures to airborne bacteria.