For those of us who follow these matters – and my academic works include Geographies of S**t: Spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste – this was an exciting moment, a rare piece of good PR for human waste. After all, most societies strongly associate it with a sense of disgust. Poo threatens the health of around 2.5 billion people … and it smells bad.
![Beyond the ‘poo bus’: the many uses of human waste Beyond the ‘poo bus’: the many uses of human waste](http://www.boxnewsbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/407190_959.jpg)