Researchers all over the world are trying to come out with alternate bio-fuels that can be tapped effectively and save the world from global warming. Human waste which goes down the drains is touted to be next alternate fuel that could power homes, double up as cooking fuel and also used as fertilizer.
Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh International, a social service organization that provides toilets to nearly 730 million people in India will push this idea of recycling human waste into biogas and fertilizer at the seventh annual World Toilet Summit at the end of October.
About 2.6 billion people worldwide lack toilets and the Millennium Development Goals hopes that at least half of them will have access to toilets by 2025. The cheap technology of recycling human waste was recently installed in Kabul, Afghanistan by the Millennium Development Goals.
How does this work?
The technology of the new toilet system organically breaks down human feces into trapped biogas that can be tapped to be used as cooking fuel and also power homes and urine is converted into fertilizer.
Nothing ever goes waste now!
