{"id":173619,"date":"2023-10-06T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bill-gates-and-samsung-develop-toilet-that-combusts-waste-into-ashes"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:26:26","slug":"bill-gates-and-samsung-develop-toilet-that-combusts-waste-into-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bill-gates-and-samsung-develop-toilet-that-combusts-waste-into-ashes","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates and Samsung develop toilet that combusts waste \u201cinto ashes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-and-samsung-develop-toilet-that-combusts-waste-into-ashes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 This toilet looks promising essentially turning waste into ashes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/bill-gates\/\">Bill Gates<\/a> has partnered with electronics company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/samsung\/\">Samsung<\/a> to create a prototype waterless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/toilets\/\">toilet<\/a> for household use that turns solid waste into ashes.<\/p>\n<p>The toilet was developed as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/\">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>\u2019s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge \u2013 an initiative that started in 2011 that sought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/our-work\/programs\/global-growth-and-opportunity\/water-sanitation-and-hygiene\/reinvent-the-toilet-challenge-and-expo\">proposals for toilets that safely and effectively manage human waste<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft founder worked with the research and development arm of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/uk\/\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> to design the waterless toilet, which uses heat-treatment and bioprocessing technologies to kill pathogens found in human waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 This toilet looks promising essentially turning waste into ashes. Billionaire Bill Gates has partnered with electronics company Samsung to create a prototype waterless toilet for household use that turns solid waste into ashes. The toilet was developed as part of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\u2019s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge \u2013 an initiative [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}