Incinerating toilet

[1] The thermal energy used to incinerate the waste can be derived from electricity, fuel, oil, or liquified petroleum gas.

Destroilets were used on ships in the 1960s when laws were passed to prevent the dumping of raw sewage into American waterways.

[3] In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" to promote safer, more effective ways to treat human excreta.

Several research teams have received funding to work on developing toilets based on solid waste combustion.

[citation needed] Incinerating toilets may be powered by electricity, gas, dried feces or other energy sources.

An example of an early (1904) incinerating toilet from the Lexikon der gesamten Technik
Example of incineration toilet under development by RTI International . The blue section to the right contains some of the drying and combustion components.