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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The New Zealand inventor of a worm-powered composting toilet said the project was nearly flushed over concerns about the psychological state of the worms.
Coll Bell, inventor of the "wormorator," said an Auckland Regional Council staff member ordered him to have an expert report on the toilet's psychological impact on the worms after she observed the project during a site visit, The (Auckland) Sunday Star-Times reported Tuesday.
The wormorator employs a colony of tiger worms to filter solids out of toilet waste that is then filtered and sent to underground trenches.
"She felt that the worms were being unfairly treated, being expected to deal with human feces, and that it could affect them in a psychological way," Bell said.
He said the council was satiated when vermiculture consultant Patricia Naidu observed the worms and declared they were living and breeding healthily.
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