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WATCH: Bill Gates Reinventing Toilet to Better the Planet

WATCH: Bill Gates Reinventing Toilet to Better the Planet 0 Tweet by Allyson Koerner August 15, 2012 Categories: Causes , Environment Tags: bill gates . As the co-founder of Microsoft you wouldn’t think Bill Gates would need to create anymore projects, but that’s not so. Currently, the revolutionary man is looking to reinvent the toilet to better the planet and people worldwide. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Gates is proposing we need a toilet revolution that will “help reduce disease and find new ways to turn crap into valuable stuff, like fuel, fertilizer and fresh water.” One of the major reasons Gates and his organization are looking to reinvent the toilet is that 2.5 billion in the world don’t have access to an actual toilet. Without a sanitary way to actually go to the bathroom, disease spreads through contamination of water and many other ways. The W...

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