Every time you flush a toilet, it releases plumes of tiny water droplets into the air around you. These droplets, called aerosol plumes, can spread pathogens from human waste and expose people in ...

In a new experiment, researchers used lasers to highlight airborne particles that are given off when uncovered toilets are flushed, which could spread dangerous pathogens. When you purchase through ...

Is something about to explode? Researchers from the University of Colorado showed how flushing a toilet can generate a volcano or geyser like plume of particles, including ones that can hang in the ...

While toilet bowls are designed such that the contents are supposed to flush downward, scientists have known for decades that small particles – including those from water, waste and toilet paper – can ...

While President Donald Trump ran as a man of the people, he’s rich and can’t be blamed for not knowing exactly how the average person dumps. At a roundtable on cutting red tape on Friday, Trump was ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have confirmed what the germ-phobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like cloud of tiny droplets and ...

The women of “The View” are certainly concerned the former president was apparently flushing official White House documents down toilets, but they also couldn’t resist poking fun at the matter on ...

ANAHEIM, CA —(BUSINESS WIRE)— Teeing up the annual observance of Flush Smart Month starting July 1, the Responsible Flushing Alliance (RFA) is spreading the word on the importance of smart flushing ...