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After designer Archie Read developed a toilet that uses a conveyor belt rather than water to dispose of waste, here is a roundup of 10 innovative loos.

Solid waste is "flushed" away with a conveyer belt in the Sandi toilet, invented by recent Brunel University graduate Archie Read.

His design brief was to design and prototype a dignified waterless toilet solution for low-income countries, with the capacity to deal with excreta from a household of 7 adults for 2 days or 3kg of solid waste and 30 litres of liquid waste. The toilet should also offer adaptability in its storage/disposal method, have a maximum footprint of 1m x 0.6m and not cost more than $72 per unit. The proposed toilet should also be able to safely receive excreta from users, separate urine and faeces, use n...

The waterless toilet has a conveyor belt and a lever that pushes out the sand from its body and bowl into the storage below.