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A research centre in the Netherlands pipes human urine from office toilets into bacteria-filled cells that turn the waste into electricity while recovering valuable nutrients — and the same technology can be configured to produce hydrogen


The waste stream powering electric vehicles and recovering scarce resources might be flowing beneath your office right now.

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