Instead of flushing it down and going to septic tanks and other irrigation processes, a new patent from Samsung aims to use heat treatment to incinerate one's feces to ashes that are safe for the environment. It is the latest technology that the South Korean giant developed as it answered the call from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to "Reinvent the Toilet," a challenge to help developing countries.
Samsung paved the way to bring a more eco-friendly end product for human waste, particularly in this new development from the company.
Samsung's New Toilet Patent Turns Feces to Ashes
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Your flush may indeed save lives with the latest Samsung patent on a new toilet system that will change the irrigation systems of the world once developments take place by many companies. According to a Samsung press release, the company developed a way to "Reinvent the Toilet," a known challenge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation years ago.
Instead of going straight to septic tanks and towards human waste processing, the new toilet patent would focus on heat-treatment and bioprocessing to turn feces to ashes, killing pathogens from the excretions. It means that once it releases into the environment, it would see less harm than unprocessed feces coming from home toilets.
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Samsung and Gates Foundation's Toilet
Back in 2018, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation centered on a challenge to change toilet technology for the better, focusing on serving the underprivileged and using its application for their needs.
It is calling upon many companies to develop a way to change toilet use in the modern world, something which Samsung carried on for years, finally developing its new bioprocessing technology for poop and human waste.
How Smart are Toilets Now?
People say one can find money anywhere, even in the toilets despite being one of the most unimaginable places to find valuable things as it is where people do their business and excrete the body's processed wastes. Different valuable things are not in the monetary form, and one example would be one's health which may see analysis right on the "throne."
Back in 2020, there was a toilet development that delivers on a health tech feature that analyzes if one contracted the disease through examining poop right on the bowl.
Another known smart toilet feature is from Kohler, and the company developed a way to integrate AI in one's bathroom, having a voice command feature with Alexa to flush the toilet or use the bidet.
As there are many developments in the world, places with the least imaginable tech improvements also get integration with modern science. Samsung and the Gates Foundation's latest take on toilets will not only help developing countries, but also the whole world in processing human waste from the irrigation system that it currently utilizes.
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Written by Isaiah Richard
