Reverse Sewage System to Power UK Homes

In Manchester, England, they've figured out a way to directly poop-power homes with biomethane gas (converted from city sewage). The gas is pumped directly into people's homes! That's right, kids...you flush your poop down the toilet, and then they send it back to you! Craaaazy!

Reverse Sewer System to Power Homes in Manchester

Dog-Shaped Poop Composter

From our ever-creative, eco-minded friends in Japan, we have this snappy little practical item for $900 US: you put your food and pet poop into it, and it produces compost for your garden! Oh yeah, and it's shaped like a dog...though we don't think it will mind if you throw your kitty or hamster poop into it as well. And if you can't tell, we're going for a record number of instances of the word poop in a single post. How'd we do?

Dog-Shaped Poop Composter from Japan

House of Shit

You know the slang term "brick shithouse"? Well this story is about building your house out of bricks made of shit--literally. Anything for conservation, folks...

Living in a Shithouse

Drink Your Own Pee

This was originally developed as part of an art exhibition...but, um, I THINK it's real...

Bottoms up! As it were...

Drink Your Own Pee Kit

Norwegian Buses to Run on Poop

Heheheh...let's hope the exhaust isn't extra stinky because of all that pickled fish they eat...!!

Poop-Powered Buses in Oslo

Another Potty Mouth Episode Online!

That's right kids, yet another classic episode from the Potty Mouth Archives has been unleashed. In this 2002 classic, On is on her own (as it were) in Tokyo, where she visits her friend Dave and gives us a tour of his high-tech Japanese bathroom.

Remember that you can download the entire Potty Mouth Colllector's Edition DVD (tm) here as a disk image. It contains not only snazzy "interactive menus" (don't you love when they list that as a "feature" on all DVDs?!) and all Season One and Two episodes, but also secret extras you can't get anywhere else, like Potty Mouth in Laos 2005 and the fabled "Ancestral Crapper" episode, banned in Syracuse.

Direct Link to the Potty Mouth Episode 11

Poop Power for the Future

As we're always telling you here on Potty Mouth (tm), the secret to "green" power of the future is the limitless energy of our poop...proven here once again. This time they're thinking of using sewage as a kind of battery:

Sewage-Powered Fuel Cells

Put Down That Toilet Seat!

C'mon guys--just like your wife or girlfriend is always telling you. And NO, it's not so they don't accidentally sit down on cold, piss-covered porcelain in the middle of the night (eeewww!), this time it's to save the environment.

Seems the Japanese environmental protection agency has launched a campaign to get folks to put the toilet seat down...something about reducing CO2 emissions. Now if only we could harness all that methane gas...

Put the Toilet Seat Down and Save the Planet

Toilets to Go--With "Dignity"

Here's the latest in "green toilets" (and NO, I'm not referring to how it will look after you use it!): a portable toilet you screw into the ground, use for about a week, and then unscrew and move to a different location! Crazy!

Portable "Dignity Toilet"

The "Otji" Dry--and Presumably Stinky--Toilet

So this is what they're pooping in in parts of Namibia these days, which is a good thing, since they have a water shortage. We at Potty Mouth are all for being green (when we're not being brown!) and conserving precious resources.

But man, no water to dissipate the smell of your poop?! We are instantly reminded of the German-style toilet with its famed "inspection shelf". The inspection shelf also ostensibly exists to conserve water. But the longer the poop is in contact with the air, the more intensely it reeks. And man, in the Otji toilet they let the bucket fill for about SIX MONTHS!!

Read about and see photos of the Otji Toilet