Young users accept NoMix toilets - A questionnaire survey on urine source separating toilets in a college in Switzerland

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 403-412

  Lienert, Judit ^a   Thiemann, Kirsten ^b   Kaufmann Hayoz, Ruth ^b   Larsen, T A ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioral habituation; Consumer; Information; Sustainability; Technological innovation; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL HABITUATION; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; TOILETS; URINE SOURCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

WASTEWATER;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY; WASTEWATER;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; INNOVATION; SEPARATION; SUSTAINABILITY; URINE; WASTEWATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLLEGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MALE; MICTURITION; ODOR; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SANITATION; SITTING; SWITZERLAND; TECHNOLOGY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; SWITZERLAND; TOILET FACILITIES; UNIVERSITIES; URINE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33846644093     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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