In Honor Of World Toilet Day, Here Are 3 Ways That Poo Is Being Reused Around The World

As we face a scarcity of clean power, drinkable water and arable land, it will become necessary to look to our toilets for a solution.

Bathrooms and waste treatment plants are a few things you can forgive yourself for taking for granted. They are, after all, designed to make things we don’t want to see or smell disappear.

But for a moment, on this World Toilet Day — a day that highlights the fact that 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have access to sanitary bathrooms — consider the world-changing potential that comes with every flush. As efforts to improve sanitation conditions in the developing world help stop the spread of disease, new technologies are also putting the gross to good use.

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