TOTO, the Japan's best-known toilet maker has unveiled a motorcycle that
runs with excretion of animals and can travel as far as 300 kilometres on a filled tank.
The bike is regarded as world's first waste-powered vehicle, which has a toilet in place of a regular seat and huge paper roll at the back. However, the company also explained that it runs with animal waste and not on human excretion once the model climbs the bike.
Kenji Fujita, a company spokesman, told reporters in a Tokyo suburb: "The biogas it uses as fuel is not made from human waste. It's made from livestock waste and sewage. We hope to raise awareness among customers about our green campaign through development of environmentally-friendly products such as water-saving showerheads and water-saving toilets."
The company - which makes toilets equipped with an array of features including heated seats, water jets with pressure and temperature controls, and ambient background music - has no plans to commercialise the motorcycle
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