Most of my classes are located at 2 west 13th street, so I couldn’t help, but notice the crazy flushing toilets. This may seem like a weird thing to talk about, but it doesn’t make this subject any less important.
Every time I enter any of the toilet stoles the first thing I hear is the sound of the toilet flushing. Thanks to the well working censors the toilet basically flushes every time you make a move. One trip to the bathroom could result in three full flushes! The amount of extra water that is unnecessarily going to waste is insane!
The New School is considered a sustainable school, and I know they’re not all bad at it in this particular toilet flushing issue. The toilets at the new building have sensors located in the back, facing upward, and in order for the toilet to flush you have to have you hand directly above the sensor, so no unnecessary flushing takes place! It may be costly to change the sensors on 2 west 13th street, but it would definitely save a lot of water.