Why it’s time to talk about poo – BBC

Why hasn’t every building and municipality switched to such smart tech? One barrier is money – sustainable technologies (especially new ones) require funding, and municipalities, which rely on taxpayer dollars,…

Everybody poops, but not everybody’s poop gets spontaneously combusted under water – Fast Company

“Stated very simply, we’re taking infrastructure and we’re turning it into an appliance,” Yee says. “So, no water coming into the toilet and no output sewage. . . . You…

Turning manure into gold: The excrement economy – USA Today

Behold the new black gold. Dark and warm, it oozes water and teems with beneficial properties. It even harbors precious metals. And boy does it stink. Call it the excrement…

Solid Gold: Poop Could Yield Precious Metals – Live Science

It’s not just gold that could be mined and sold. Waste contains elements like vanadium and copper that could be used in devices such as cellphones and computers, the researchers…

Americans poop up to $4.2B in precious metals every year – New York Post

Poop could be a gold mine — and that’s no load of crap! You could be flushing a fortune in feces down the toilet in the form of tiny nuggets of…

Sewage sludge could contain millions of dollars worth of gold – Science

If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from, well, poop?…In a new study, scientists at…

Gold in faeces ‘worth millions’ – BBC

US researchers are investigating ways to extract the gold and precious metals from human faeces..Details were outlined at the 249th national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Denver…The…

How Poop Can Be Worth $9.5 Billion

According to a smart study by a United Nations think tank on water, environment and health, there may be a simple—and profitable—solution: turn human waste from a disposal problem to an energy…

Stinking Rich? Human Waste Contains Gold, Research Finds – Time

Deploying an electron microscope, Dr. Kathleen Smith and her team spent eight years unearthing minuscule metal particles in treated solid waste. “The gold we found was at the level of…

Your poop could be a literal goldmine of precious metals – Washington Post

You may know that you can earn $13,000 a year selling your own feces, but now it seems that the U.S. government stands to make bank on your solid waste, as…

Pisse Prophecy: A Brief History of Urinalysis

Urinalysis, the first laboratory test, has had a long and fascinating history. Diagnoses and prognostications were made by ancient physicians after observation of the urine’s color and character. Over the…