What goes down the drain can sustain the whole building

A pug named Paulee doing his business on a Tel Aviv sidewalk inspired a revolutionary business in waste management, catching the imagination of the White House, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, corporations and investors on several continents. The newest business springing from this unlikely source is Epic CleanTec, a California company introducing a system that separates out an entire building’s solid waste from the wastewater stream and converts it into dry, odorless, sterile, organically based fertilizer for landscaping. The system also redirects the building’s used water for toilet flushing, irrigation and cooling towers. Output heat is captured and recycled into the building’s hot-water supply. -- More...