Jackie Chan is recycling water

I stumbled upon this article on the world wide web, on that corner where northwest Asian weekly has set up their web servers and this is what they store, written by Ninette Cheng.

If it’s yellow, let it mellow?
Finally, Jackie Chan offers some strange tips for saving the environment. While speaking at a Go Green initiative for Segway (the two-wheeled transporter) in Singapore, Chan talked about how much water is wasted from using the restroom each day. He said he urges the cast and crew on his film sets to flush the toilet once a day at the end of the day. Apparently, it’s his small contribution to saving the environment. Note to self: To conserve sense of smell, stay away from bathrooms on Jackie Chan’s movie sets.

I don't know what to say? Should I point out at the small button for the smaller flushing that most toilets in China have (at least in urban areas)?

I am no stranger to recycling water when it comes to toilets. While I lived with my female friend and her family in Shanghai, we always recycled the bathroom water.
Not that water is too expensive in Shanghai, nope, it is more about Chinese collective thinking. Imagine 1,4 billion Chinese flushing toilets, imagine 1,4 billion Chinese doing this and that....

A'right, before drawing any conclusions about our bathroom water recycling, before letting any images enter your mind. This is how it is done, the person who was the last one to have a bath or a shower in the evening, let the water stay in the bath tube. Then the following day this water in the bath tube mixed with amounts of soup and shampoo was scooped with a bowl to flush the toilet. No smells nor other disgust -factors. Hey, the toilet even got washed in the process.

This really is a good way to save water and energy. Now something else.

Can anyone who reads Korean provide asia-celebs.com with a translation please? My wild presumption goes something like this:

• You have to be of the age of 21 or above to use these public toilets.
• Being a peeping tom gives you bad karma.
• Being a beeping tom with a peek-a-boo way of scaring the ladies away (as if they wouldn't get scared off anyway) gives you seriously bad karma.

Joshua,

signing off

for tonight...

 

Comments

[d. q.]

Karma 21 - drive in theater. same name and title on their website. No clue whatsoever as to the funky toilet sign!

Perhaps they are just trying to be youthful?