Loowatt Ltd

**Challenge -** Extreme situations (including floods, droughts, war) and events (including festivals, weddings, construction) require portable toilets (PT). But, PTs currently use toxic chemicals, water, are unhygienic and expensive. **Project Description -**PEET will conduct industrial research and incorporate user-centred techniques (including workshops...

**Project Vision** - The need for social distancing to address COVID-19, human need for exercise and social distancing requires people to spend increased time in open public spaces eg parks, beaches. However, public toilet facilities (PTFs) are scarce and have been closed due to COVID-19\. This has forced some people in the UK and globally to defecate pub...

HIT–G: Human Waste System Integration Technology - Growth

* Challenge - Flushing human waste (HW) with potable water and treatment in UK’s aging urban sewerage infrastructure is financially, socially and environmentally unsustainable. Poor systems integration and citizen-centric challenges require radical innovation. * Significance - This project will integrate systems to offer a waterless toilet, logistics and ...

The UK portable toilet hire industry is worth £540 million/yr, and serves millions of customers every year, but relies on technology that dates from the 1970s. Portable chemical toilets, which use biocides e.g. formaldehyde to suppress odour, incur great costs and carbon emissions to transport thousands of tons of chemically-dosed sewage to treatment work...

Loowatt Ltd., a U.K. start-up company that has developed an energy-generating waterless toilet system, will work with InCrops, a consultancy spin-out from the University of East Anglia, to assess the feasibility of various processes that can produce fertilizer as an additional value-adding byproduct of Loowatt systems.

The U.K. portable toilet hire industry is worth £540 million annually, and serves millions of customers every year, but relies on technology that dates from the 1970s: Namely, the portable chemical toilet, which uses biocides such as formaldehyde to suppress odour, and then incurs great costs and carbon emissions to transport thousands of tons of chemical...