practical purposes of poo

Got this info from a video a friend of mine posted on Twitter. It is classic! And at the same time a pretty cool idea.

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A toilet made out of poop
• It has a pleasant softness to it
• It is really quite nice actually

Virginia Gardiner – Industrial Designer/Writer in London

She is developing a new waterless toilet system

In America we have a flush and forget mentality
• We love to flush the toilet
• We love to eliminate the contents of the toilet from our memory and experience as quickly as possible.
• Each flush uses one to three gallons of water.
• There are 2.6 billion people globally (40% of total population) who do not have a toilet.

She is trying to create a waterless toilet of the city that uses no energy and turns human waste into a commodity.

Compact Composting Toilet:
• She uses composting worms (worms compost things most quickly)
• Set up a wormory where she put feces on a regular basis to see how the worms would do turning it to soil.
• Poop transformed in just a few days and became invisible.

LooWatt System:
• Empty toilet with a cartridge
• Wheel the cartridge to a biodigester which produces gas
• Take the gas, and cook dinner with it
• Eat dinner, and you get really happy and you poo!
• Start process over

Our daily contribution to this planet which comes from our bodies is 2 pounds of excrement (combo of pee and poo)

Shouldn’t that excrement be put into a system where we can use it again in the most beneficial possible way?

Watch this video: http://bit.ly/4GgEtP