The Toilet Pages
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
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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… Read more.
