Thursday, January 10, 2008

17,520 litres in 60 seconds

the loo bandit has stepped it up.

the last 48 hours have seen another 7 bottles placed in loos in people's homes, a cafe and some service stations, (you do not want to visit one of those toilets unless you're desperate!).

came across my first toilet already containing a bottle (it was the smallest bottle you've ever seen so I added another a 250ml Sanpelligrino bottle so it's saving a little more!).

put a 600ml bottle in a really busy cafe that we go to regularly and did a highly conservative estimate of the number of flushes and water savings that one bottle will make in 08. Eighty flushes a day (this is a really conservative estimate), will now save 17,520 litres! Pretty incredible to think that if that loo keeps getting used at the same rate for the next ten years, we just saved more than 175,000 litres of one of the world's most valuable resources. It took all of 60 seconds to place the bottle and check that it wasn't causing the system to leak!

added another 300ml bottle to our own loo just to see how much water can be saved before the flush wont do its job! Nothing floating in the bowl with 900mls worth of bottles in the cistern! lol!

bandit counter: 11 loos/yearly water saving guestimate 29,765 litres

2 comments:

fwem said...

I think you should aim to beat your previous time on each bottle placement! 60 seconds eh? How long will your next drop take!?

the loo bandit said...

lol! the 60 secs was an estimate! The more I do the quicker I get and the more normal it becomes!