Bill Gates and Samsung join forces to create a waterless toilet that burns solid waste into ash

Samsung has revealed the development of a toilet prototype that converts solid waste to ashes. The Korean company created the prototype in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the competitions that inspired the development of the prototype was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which was launched in 2011. The task necessitates solutions for securely and efficiently managing human waste.

About The Waterless Toilet

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge in 2011 to solicit ideas for toilets that efficiently and safely manage human waste. This toilet was built as part of the challenge. The waterless toilet was designed by Microsoft’s founder in collaboration with Samsung Electronics’ research and development division to eliminate viruses found in human waste.

According to Samsung, “the method enables the treated water to be recycled.” “Liquid waste is treated by a biological purification process, whilst solid trash is dehydrated, dried, and burned into ashes.” The brand said, “Samsung’s core technologies include heat-treatment and bioprocessing technologies to destroy viruses from human waste and make the released effluent and solids safe for the environment.”

Nitrogen and micropollutants in sewage and human waste can be hazardous to both people and the environment if not treated. Samsung Electronics’ “energy-efficient” prototype is designed to function without water. It could be especially beneficial in remote areas with limited water supplies.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- Contribution

According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the disposal of human waste—which has changed little since its inception and is a significant contributor to many major health challenges confronting humanity—is a key cause of many contemporary problems.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also contributed to the development of the Save separation toilet, designed by an Austrian company, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology toilet, which features a trap to redirect urine that can later be converted into fertiliser.

Other advancements have been made, such as waste treatment facilities and underground sewers, but in developing countries, where 950 million people still have to urinate outside, these difficult, expensive, and difficult-to-manage systems are of little use.

Samsung’s technology will not only address the issues that humanity is currently facing, but it will also provide solutions to those issues. Beneficial to the entire planet. Liked this post? Don’t forget to check out our other short stories in our Quick Read section