LooWatt

LooWatt had already developed a patented waterless toilet system that allows waste material to be collected for biomass digestion and power generation.

Their original system focused on producing community toilet blocks in developing countries where there was little or no access to running water. Whist hugely successful they required significant infrastructure.

They approached us to help them expand their efforts by developing a much simpler and more economic solution that could be used within the household, with no existing infrastructure required. We worked hard to apply the lessons they’d learnt in developing the first units, whilst distilling it down to produce something that could be delivered at a fraction of the cost.

The final design used a series of low-cost vac-forms to provide the main structural elements, into which we placed a new ingenious yet simple ‘flushing’. The new units also showed huge potential for deployment in emergency disaster relief.