Reading Festival sewage turned into electricity

Hundreds of thousands of litres of sewage from the toilets at Reading Festival was transformed into renewable energy. Thames Water worked night and day to process and treat the enormous quantity of poo and pee generated by thousands of music fans over five days. But festival-goers were also being urged to be mindful of what else goes into the toilets after tents, mobile phones and sleeping bags have had to be fished out in previous years. Nine tankers, which can each carry almost 19,000 litres of sewage, worked from 6am…

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