The Forest Service wants you to port your own potty because it’s expensive and hazardous to airlift out 4,500 pounds of human waste each year from very high altitudes: Trail Camp, at 12,000 feet ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

Figuring out exactly where to site new privies is also problematic because visitors’ urges can strike anywhere. Over the past three years, teams of volunteers documenting human waste and social trails ...

The waste used by Vaulted Deep is typically a slurry, not quite solid, liquid, or gas. Traditionally, this type of waste is difficult to treat and often ends up being left in fields, leading to ...

The blue barrels are solely for solid human waste. Local porters working on Everest lug the barrels down from base camp to Gorak Shep, a frozen lakebed 17,000 feet above sea level.

Pedestrians and cars were soaked with sewage after a major pipe exploded near a motorway. A pipe ruptured on a section of ...

Baltimore City officials discovered the source of a human waste leak in Brewers Hill that came from a sewer line and spewed into a storm drain that leads to the harbor.

April 9 (UPI) -- NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who proposes technology to solve an unusual problem: recycling feces and other human waste in space. The space agency's LunaRecycle Challenge ...