No one likes a dirty, smelly bus – but this one actually reeks for a good reason. Britain’s first ‘poo bus’, which runs on human and household waste, goes into regular service later this month (and no, it won’t smell like poo).
Powered by biomethane gas, the Bio-Bus will use waste from more than 32,000 households along its 15-mile route. Operated by bus company First West of England, the bus will fill up at a site in Avonmouth, Bristol, where sewage and inedible food waste is turned into biomethane gas.
The bus, which can seat up to 40 people, was unveiled in the Bristol area last autumn. Transport company First is showing off the bus in Bristol on Tuesday and it will operate four days a week on Service 2, which stretches from Cribbs Causeway to Stockwood, from March 25. If the route proves a success, First will consider introducing more ‘poo buses’.
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