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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Sintex Industries, a plastics company in India, has rolled out a small-scale methane digester that can produce enough gas to power a stove, washing machine or generator.

The 264-gallon digester takes in human waste as well as kitchen scraps. As the material composts, the digester routes the resulting methane into a storage tank. For now, the system is available only in India, but DIYers are in a fever all over the web already posting online about their own manure-powered creations.

We look forward to posting some of the more creative versions here in the coming months.

In the meantime, back to the old porcelain for the time being.

Thunderbox - (Noun) Australian slang for an outdoors toilet otherwise known as a Dunny. By implication, an old ramshackle structure full of spiders, vermin and unpleasant smells. Deposits normally disposed of by hand into a pre-dug pit.

Bombe Alaska - (also known as Baked Alaska, glace au four, omelette à la norvégienne, Norwegian omelette and omelette surprise) is a dessert made of ice cream with slices of sponge cake and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven.

Article supplied by: Eco Writer Richard de Largie D'Alton