It might sound disgusting, but you should be peeing in your shower, according to IFLScience. And it's because you could save the planet, just a little bit, by doing so.
Normally, every single time you pee, you have to flush the toilet. While poops need considerable amounts of water to send them off to the aquatic underworld below, urine barely needs any encouragement once the flushing begins. So it's wasting quite a lot of water.
And if you pee in the shower, it still goes to the same place like you pee in the toilet. The only difference is that the shower flushes it down with water that was going to be used anyway, while a toilet flush uses water that could have been saved, and that is where you are going to save some water and money. (Plus, you’re saving on toilet paper.)
Your water savings will depend on how many people live in your home and how much water your toilets use.
An average flush for a modern, Western-style toilet uses 6 liters of water, and the average adult pees about seven times every 24 hours. That means that each day of peeing takes 42 liters of toilet water to flush away. Assuming that people urinate the same way every single day, this means in just one year, the average person uses 15,330 liters of toilet water.
Now, if you peed in the shower, you’d massively reduce this amount. Say that this means that you only pee in a toilet six, not seven times, per day. This means that in just one year, you’d save 2,190 liters of toilet water. And if you have a family of 5, using modern toilets, you would save 10,950 liters (more than $60) per year if everyone peed in the shower once a day.
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