Clinical-looking modern toilets may help fuel unhelpful notions that faecal matter is disgusting Shutterstock/Oasisamuel
Bryn Nelson (Hachette)
ASK me to name the world’s best invention, and I will always give the same answer: the toilet. Its ability to whisk waste away to a safe place where potential pathogens and odours can do no harm isn’t to be sniffed at. But an unusual book has convinced me that toilets make it too easy to waste our waste.
Bryn Nelson’s Flush: The remarkable science of an unlikely treasure explains the many ways …
