{"id":138344,"date":"2025-03-18T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/the-toilet-that-turns-waste-into-biofuel-student-inventor-teams-idea-wins-invent-for-the-planet-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T06:00:49","slug":"the-toilet-that-turns-waste-into-biofuel-student-inventor-teams-idea-wins-invent-for-the-planet-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/the-toilet-that-turns-waste-into-biofuel-student-inventor-teams-idea-wins-invent-for-the-planet-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The toilet that turns waste into biofuel \u2013 student inventor team\u2019s idea wins Invent for the Planet 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A biotransformer toilet that converts human waste into biofuel was the winning idea in the Swansea round of \u201cInvent for the Planet\u201d, an international design competition for student inventors. The competition is run by Texas A&amp;M University and is open to 50 participating universities in 24 countries around the world. Swansea is the only UK university invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Students at each university work in local teams and select a global challenge, with this year\u2019s including lower carbon solutions for the energy sector, sustainable housing for poor areas, and solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Students are given 48 hours to research their challenge and come up with an idea for a new invention. They have to create a prototype and develop an elevator pitch which they present to a panel of judges drawn from academia and industry.<\/p>\n<p>Their product would improve sanitation and help prevent the spread of water-borne diseases. It would also capture methane to generate household power, create fertilizer for use in local agriculture, and create employment opportunities. Their design uses locally available, locally sourced or recycled materials which can, in turn, be re-used or recycled afterwards. During the competition the team produced an early prototype of the toilet, which the judges thought had the potential to be a viable product. The University\u2019s enterprise team, which has a strong track record in supporting student start-ups, will also be able to offer advice on developing the idea further.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/press-office\/news-events\/news\/2025\/03\/the-toilet-that-turns-waste-into-biofuel---student-inventor-teams-idea-wins-invent-for-the-planet-2025.php\">Swansea University<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-685\/\">The toilet that turns waste into biofuel &#8211; student inventor team\u2019s idea wins Invent for the Planet 2025<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2364,575,5354,445],"class_list":["post-138344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-biofuel","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-toilet","tag-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}