THREE tourism proposals are being considered for council approval. They include off-grid caravans to the north of the county town, a campsite to the south and the addition of toilet and shower ...

A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterless toilet.

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Composting toilets are a great idea, but no one likes to think of the waste just sitting there and slowly … fermenting. A new eco-friendly toilet gets around that problem by using mushrooms to ...

Media preview event: Journalists are invited to an exclusive preview of the MycoToilet on Sept. 26 at 11 a.m. Full details below. UBC researchers are launching the world’s first mushroom-powered ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

UK company CompoCloset is already known for portable toilets with particularly clean, boxy, white designs. Its latest promises to be the cleanest operator yet. A mashup of separating and auto-sealing ...

Toilet paper rolls aren’t just for the bathroom. It may come as a surprise, but these round, flexible pieces of cardboard are also great gardening tools, and can be used as seed starters, compost ...

More than 1,000 gallons of poop — enough to fill a small, above-ground swimming pool — would have wound up on the streets of Grand Junction last year. The same can be said for more than 2,000 gallons ...

Approximately 2.5 billion people worldwide and 4 million people in the United States live without a flushing toilet. In Alaska, about 22 percent of the population — just over 160,000 people — live ...

“Safe toilets for all by 2030” is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets. But, with just more than five years to go until 2030, the United Nations says the world is “seriously off-track … 3.5 ...