Toilets

Think you know a thing or two about toilets? Test your knowledge with our quiz, then learn more about the innovations behind the toilets of the future below.
Toilets of the future

Cranfield Toilet
CIRCULAR toilet
Cranfield University
How does it work? The Cranfield Circular Toilet is a low-water toilet that connects to a self-contained sanitation unit.

Eco-San/ Blackwater
Blackwater Household Reinvented Toilet
California Institute of Technology, Yixing Eco-Sanitary Manufacture Co. (Eco-San)
How does it work? The Blackwater Household Reinvented Toilet doesn’t separate pee and poop but processes them together using “anaerobic digestion.”

G2RT Toilet
G2RT FUTURE DESIGN vision
Generation 2 Redesigned Toilet (G2RT) team
How does it work? The G2RT looks like a toilet from the front, but the back of the unit has much more in store than the typical flush.

Enviro Loo
Enviro Loo Clear Reinvented Community Toilet
Enviro Options, Clear
The Enviro Loo is a unique off-the-grid community toilet that requires no sewer system, no water, no external energy, and no chemicals.

Omni Processor
Omni Processor
Janicki Bioenergy
If a toilet can be reinvented, why not a waste treatment plant too? Engineers developed the Omni Processor to provide a low-cost method of treating human waste in low-resource areas around the world.