This Commuter Bus Runs On Poop, Seriously

Hold the jokes (and your nose). A U.K.-based biogas plant, GENeco, has developed a 40-seater than runs on converted sewage and food waste. Honest.

The vehicle is called the Bio-Bus, is the first bus of its kind in the U.K. abd can run for about 186 miles on a single tank of fuel — which is derived from the annual sewage and food waste of five people.

The first thing that you notice as different is the signage on the bus. One side shows people dumping their food scraps into food-recycling bins and the other side shows a row of ordinary folks sitting on toilets.

“Gas powered vehicles have an important role to play in improving air quality in U.K. cities, but the Bio-Bus goes further than that and is actually powered by people living in the local area, including quite possibly those on the bus itself,” GENeco general manager Mohammed Saddiq said in a statement.

“Using bio[gas] in this way not only provides a sustainable fuel, but also reduces our reliance on traditional fossil fuels,” he added.

GENeco notes that the bus emits up to 30 percent less carbon dioxide than a standard diesel-engine bus. What’s more biogas can be captured from landfills, wastewater, manure and agricultural waste.

How’s that for an environmental breath of fresh air.

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