waterless toilets

August 17, 2012

Loughborough University wins ‘Reinvent the Toilet’ award from Gates Foundation

VIDEO: Loughborough University has won a prestigious prize in an international competition organised by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a reinvented toilet that […]
February 24, 2011

South Africa plans urgent clean-up of toxic mine liquid

South Africa plans to set up a chain of pumping stations and treatment plants to prevent toxic liquids building up in defunct gold mines beneath Johannesburg […]
November 2, 2010

Large-Scale Fish Farm Production Offsets Environmental Gains, Assessment Finds

Industrial-scale aquaculture production magnifies environmental degradation, according to the first global assessment of the effects of marine finfish aquaculture (e.g. salmon, cod, turbot and grouper) released […]
October 29, 2010

Urine as a Commercial Fertilizer?

The separate collection of urine provides innovative opportunities for the improvement of sanitation and the recycling of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Urine separation is an excellent […]
July 18, 2010

Ecological Sanitation – What is it?

Eco Sanitation works on the principle that urine and faeces are not simply waste products of the human digestion process, but rather are an asset that […]
June 20, 2010

Video: Waterless Toilet System from South Africa

Here is a detailed explanation of how the EcoSan waterless toilet system works. See a related post about waterless toilet systems.