Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Food waste at the Songpa waste treatment facility is dumped into hoppers in July. Seoul, a city of 10 million people, produces 2,500 tons of food waste daily. (Jean Chung / For The Times) Striding ...

Not a composting toilet, but it's a good reminder to always keep your toilet clean! (Pexels.) If you’re like me, you’re always thinking of ways that you can live your life a little bit more “green.” I ...

The dry composting method will be familiar to those with off-grid homes. In the US, dry compost toilets have long been built as alternatives to flush toilets in rural homes that aren’t connected to a ...

Smart use of bacteria is helping Fruita's public works department turn sewage into something useful. Roughly one million gallons of wastewater flowing into the Wastewater Reclamation Facility every ...

(CNN) — Consider the toilet — that humble porcelain bowl that spirits away our waste several times a day. It’s not a piece of technology that often gets flashy updates (though dual flushing, seat ...

Underneath a giant, rusting impeller, a worker cuts sections of pipe to be removed from a former aeration basin at Fresno’s wastewater treatment plant in this 2015 file photo. The basin is being ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. After nearly 25 ...

Striding through a field of overgrown grass where thick blue pipes crisscross into concrete silos, Choi Sung-ho scrunched his nose in the steamy July heat, drawing in a familiar odor. Located just off ...

A study of the practicality of composting “biosolids” sludge from Fresno’s sewage-treatment plant has been put on hold after a City Council member raised concerns over potential odor and environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heather Myers, director of operations at the Island Waste Management Corporation says the active composting system is the most ...