{"id":1426,"date":"2009-07-18T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2009-07-18T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T12:33:52","slug":"phyto-purification-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/1426","title":{"rendered":"Phyto-Purification Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Phyto Purification Bathroom\" title=\"Phyto Purification Bathroom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/0709\/phyto_bath2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, commonly used in ecological purification systems, Jun Yasumoto&#8217;s <a title=\"Jun Yasumoto - Phyto Purification Bathroom\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.junyasumoto.com\/Jun_Yasumoto_-_Phyto-Purification_bathroom_-_1.html\">Phyto-Purification Bathroom<\/a> becomes a mini eco-system by recycling and regenerating the wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>During its filtering process, the water goes through different steps :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rushes are planted in sand which filters larger particles. The root system of the rushes contain various bacterias which break down these particles for absorption by the plant.<\/li>\n<li>The reeds are planted next to the rushes as they have the ability to filter the heavy metals from the water.<\/li>\n<li>The floating water hyacinths draw through their roots some of the water borne particles which are still present in the water.<\/li>\n<li>The lemnas, which are also aquatic plants, bind to the remaining aquatic micro-organisms to complete the filtering process.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a carbon filter stops the remaining micro-particles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, commonly used in ecological purification systems, Jun Yasumoto&#8217;s Phyto-Purification Bathroom becomes a mini eco-system by recycling and regenerating the wastewater. During its filtering process, the water goes through different steps : The rushes are planted in sand which filters larger particles. The root system of the rushes contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,19],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}