Robot recycles pet poop
May 6th, 2009 by James
Meet “Sum,” Tohoku Kankyo’s new robot trashcan that will take your old food and pet poop and turn it into eco-friendly compost:
Using some sort of fancy bio substance that breaks down garbage and takes away smelliness, the Sum can process about 600 grams of poop and/or food each day.
They retail for about $900, and require “bio” refills every 4 months or so.
[hat tip to Ken Y-N]
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$900 seems awful steep for a compost heap in a plastic box. Whatever will these robots think of next?
I’d poop in that can!
http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/05/05/catgenie-self-flushing-self-washing-cat-box-review/#comments
This might be a solution if you have a cat in the house.
Cat and dog poop are terrible fertilizers. Any carnivore feces is too acidic.
I’ve got one of these back in Scotland. Not quite as pretty, and a lot larger, but cheap. The fancy bio stuff is lime, and you use it with elbow grease: free aerobic exercise!
It’s called a compost bin, and you only need a tiny bit of space for it. It’s not cute, though: no one in Japan would buy one.