The Living Machine Sewage System

The Port of Portland is installing one of these at the Portland International Airport.  See Deja Poo article in Wired Magazine.

Increasingly, building designers are managing sewage in-house—really in-house. The Port of Portland, for example, is integrating waste management into the lobby of its new headquarters under construction. The Living Machine uses soil and bacteria to filter out pathogens, essentially turning wastewater into nonpotable water. But the signature element of the system is the plant life that grows up and out of it—right into the lobby.

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