U.S. billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled on Tuesday in Beijing a futuristic toilet that doesn't need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer.

The Microsoft Corp co-founder, who a day earlier was one of the high profile guests at a major trade event in Shanghai, also lauded the globalised and free trade systems that made the toilet technology possible.

"I honestly believe trade allows every country to do what it's best at," he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

"So when I talk about components of this toilet being made in China, others in Thailand, others in the United States - you really want to be bringing together all of that IQ so that you're getting that combination."

Gates' trip comes amid trade tension between China and the United States, the world's two largest economies, which have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on goods worth billions of dollars.

The toilet, which Gates said was ready for sale after years of development, is the brainchild of research projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's biggest private philanthropy organisation.

There are multiple designs of the toilet but all work by separating liquid and solid waste.

"The current toilet simply sends the waste away in the water, whereas these toilets don't have the sewer. They take both the liquids and solids and do chemical work on it, including burning it in most cases," Gates told Reuters.

He compared the change from traditional toilets to waterless models as similar to development in computing around the time he founded Microsoft in the mid-1970s.

"In the way that a personal computer is sort of self contained, not a gigantic thing, we can do this chemical processing at the household level," he said.

Poor sanitation kills half a million children under the age of five annually and costs the globe over $200 billion a year in healthcare costs and lost income, according to the foundation.

Gates' foundation has committed roughly $200 million to the toilet project and expects to spend the same amount again before the toilets are viable for wide-scale distribution.

"This year the volume of toilets will literally be in the 100s while people are still kicking tyres (testing them)," Gates said.

During a speech at the Beijing event, Gates held up a clear jar of human faeces to illustrate the importance of improving sanitation.

"It's a good reminder that in (the jar) there could be 200 trillion rotavirus cells, 20 billion Shigella bacteria, and 100,000 parasitic worm eggs."

It is the first time Gates' foundation has addressed an event in China, where President Xi Jinping is promoting a three-year "toilet revolution" to build or upgrade 64,000 public toilets by 2020 to help boost tourism and economic growth.

Gates said the next step for the project is to pitch the concept to manufacturers, saying he expects the market for the toilets to be over $6 billion by 2030.
source: http://starnation.com.ng/the-new-toilet-that-transforms-human-poo-into-fertiliser-made-by-bill-gate/

Bill Gates should come up with something more creative.
We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

NwaAmaikpe:



Bill Gates should come up with something more creative.
We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

Fowl

Yeye!!
For him mind now, he don create sth genius!!
Sth wey our forefathers dey use to farm!!
Rich men wasting money on irrelevant things!!

Nice One Billy Gee





I Can Use That To Start MY SHITE FERTILIZER COMPANY

Instead of Just Sucking Away Down Their

Cool

Making money from shit.

NwaAmaikpe:



Bill Gates should come up with something more creative.
We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

That would explain a lot...

poo business is serious business

NwaAmaikpe:



We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

.

You are right my brother. Different kind of shiit. I even make money from my poultry via fowl shiit.

Poo is now money

Kudos

really needed in Africa

These guys don't relent... Do they


In olamide's voice
woni ninu igbe lolowa emi legendary hustler

Bill gate Be like

great

NwaAmaikpe:


Bill Gates should come up with something more creative.
We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

Lol...yhu jux have to eat healthy to poo healthy

my brother's nawa for una o...is it ya shit

Huh
Ghana boys no go like am

wow. great. check my signature for lovely dresses

Does that include Aboki"s shit with little or no value??

Bill should work on electricity for our cities and villages...

Ecosan

Ok

It will work well in Nigeria. After all, we are a shithoole country according to Trump

Liliyann:
Yeye!!
For him mind now, he don create sth genius!!
Sth wey our forefathers dey use to farm!!
Rich men wasting money on irrelevant things!!

Which one you don invent?? Las Las he is still richer than everyone in Nigeria.... And maybe sef you don use him product....

NwaAmaikpe:



Bill Gates should come up with something more creative.
We've been using shiit as fertilizer in Emene since the early 80s.

Mad cow

Many people will come here to say poo about this system not knowing there is no difference between the poo they post on Nairaland and the poo the system converts to fertilizer.

i must take a shit here