This handy gadget, which looks like a camping flashlight, delivers a secret formula to animal and human waste that turns it into ash within seconds!
With so much sh#t mounting in the world – dog poop on the sidewalk, overflowing human waste in heavily-trafficked tourist areas, sewage plants banned (like in the West Bank) – we need some kind of magic formula to get rid of it. And now we need look no further.
Professor Oded Shoseyov from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has invented Ashpoopie – a contraption that delivers “special formula” to dog or human waste which almost immediately turns the feces into ash. If this sounds far-fetched to you, don’t worry, we had the same reaction, but closer analysis shows that if this stuff is as safe and cheap as its publicist claims, we potentially have a revolutionary product on our hands that can solve all of the world’s sh#tty problems.
The magic formula of Ashpoopie
Cleaning up dog turds left on the street with plastic bags that won’t degrade for hundreds of years is not an effective solution to getting rid of “shoe mines,” according to Paulee CleanTec. Rather than get rid of the waste, it ends up being shuffled to some other place.
What we really need is something that will make it vanish altogether. Ashpoopie does just that. Well, almost.
Within ten seconds after it is mixed with what the company calls a “cheap and safe” special formula – which magic ingredients have yet to be disclosed – the poop becomes an odorless and completely sterile ash that can be vacuum packed. But Wait, the best is yet to come.
Using human poop as fertilizer
Ashpoopie won’t only rid the streets of New York City, Tel Aviv, and other dog-friendly urban environments of these nuisance piles; but it will also turn human waste into fertilizer and generate electricity!
Paulee’s Spokespeople Mr. Moshe Hibel and Dr Yaeli Pintchuck claim that the same patent is being used to develop SCHT – Self Contained Human Toilets.
According to Dr. Yaeli Pintchuck:
This patent will be used for: Portable / chemical toilets which have no connection to any sewage system. Shortly we can say that based on the formula that we use (cheap and safe chemical) the feces will turn to sterile ash in seconds and will leave about 10-20% of the original “portion” – the ash can be evacuated once in a long while and then can be used as fertilizer.
This toilet will even generate its own energy by capturing heat energy from the process required to convert the feces into ash and converting into electricity. Failing that, according to Dr. Pintchuck, a solar panel can be installed.
Cleaning pollution in the Nile
Paulee’s poop-to-ash converter has numerous applications. It can be used to clean up the Falucca boats that pollute the Nile River and other waterbound vessels, as well as on airplanes, buses, and trains. It’s also a superb solution for dealing with high quantities of human waste at music festivals and poor villages that lack access to a sewage plant. This stuff can literally be used anywhere.
By now you’re probably expecting Ashpoopie to cost hundreds of dollars, right? Maybe not. Although the cost of the initial outlay has not been established, a month’s supply of small capsules – enough to clean up after one dog – will cost between $10 and $20. Human applications, by virtue of volumes, would probably cost a bit more. Unless you own a Great Dane.
Professor Oded Shoseyov’s expects Ashpoopie to be available in retail outlets by the second quarter of 2012.
2020 update: looks like Ashpoopie never made it to production.
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Author: Tafline Laylin
As a tour leader who led “eco-friendly” camping trips throughout North America, Tafline soon realized that she was instead leaving behind a trail of gas fumes, plastic bottles and Pringles. In fact, wherever she traveled – whether it was Viet Nam or South Africa or England – it became clear how inefficiently the mandate to re-think our consumer culture is reaching the general public. Born in Iran, raised in South Africa and the United States, she currently splits her time between Africa and the Middle East. Tafline can be reached at tafline (at) greenprophet (dot) com.
I need contacts to access this product and sell to the Southern Africa market.
Please i will like to be a sole distributor in Ghana. Please i need all the relevant information as to how to order this product.
Thanks.
Dear sir/madam i would really like to have to magic machine i need to have my own order please tell me where to get it and how much the Ashpoopie is i realy need to get one for me. i would also bring customers for cause not only me need this kind of magic machine.
I would like to know more about this.
if is is something that is easy to use and works as you say,my comany would have an interest in selling this.
Let me know when you have a demo model so we can try it.
Regards
Rick Sures
I want a dealer ship with this products in usa? how do I get it? daliya
sorry, i wish i could tell you but as mentioned, its one of the most safe and sterile chemicals in the world !!!
to all of you who winder….
dont be worry, the chemichal they use is much more than safe, it is one of the most safe and sterile chemichals !!!
the dog’s device isnt ready yet for sale, some parts are produced in the east and some in israel.
hopefuly on the market next year with the new cat litter box which will do the same to the cat’s feces as well the urine….
patient only….this gona be some kind of thing that many scientists will say:how we didnt though about long time before
Amnon,
What’s in the chemicals?
@ Miriam: I had the same thoughts…
@ Stephanie: really? Do you know what they are called and where they are being produced?
This looks like it’s simple enough to be used by anyone, and if it’s cheap, then it’ll really be a boon. Although I wonder about the magic formula and “safe” chemicals.
So another micro-incinerator. Two or three incinerating toilets are already on the market.