The waterless toilet that turns human waste into energy | Virginia Gardiner | TEDxBrixton

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Virginia Gardiner asks us to rethink the toilet.‘There is no such thing as sinkers and floaters’, she says talking us through her amazing innovation in sanitation. The benefits to those living in developing regions, without proper sanitation, are obvious. The benefits to those in the West seemed less so, but Virginia assures us that we'll be seeing Loowatt in music festival fields very soon.

Virginia has worked in design, engineering, management, entrepreneurship, fundraising and journalism. After studying literature and engineering at Stanford  University, and covering design for publications including The New York Times and Metropolis, she began to value the social importance of products and systems we live with, and to recognize certain everyday realities, such as the flush toilet, as wasteful. She founded Loowatt Ltd. in 2009 after developing the toilet and system concept during her masters’ degree at the Royal College of Art in 2008.

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