Waste Enterprisers was founded and is run by an American woman Ashley Murray, whom I recently met. Together with Columbia University and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and with support from the Gates Foundation, WE is working to develop technology to turn fecal sludge (yep, it's what you think it is) into biofuel and to develop other businesses to turn human waste into an economic resource. These businesses can "eliminate the dumping of fecal sludge into the environment while simultaneously offsetting fossil fuel consumption."
Waste Enterprisers is competing in a unique program for innovative social entreprenuers, called the Unreasonable Institute. You can help support their efforts here: The Unreasonable Institute.
This is another innovative idea, run by committed, smart people with the audacity to change the world.
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