Application runs your boiler using nappies, food and garden clippings

Introducing the device that lets you power your home… with RUBBISH: Application runs your boiler using nappies, food and garden clippings

• Revolutionary appliance can power a home’s boiler using plastic and food waste
• British invention, called Heru, is about the size of a washing machine
• It was invented by Nik Spencer and experts from Brunel University, London 

A revolutionary appliance that powers a home’s boiler using rubbish – including plastic, nappies, food and even garden clippings – is due to go on sale next year.

The British invention, called Heru, is about the size of a washing machine and is the brainchild of inventor Nik Spencer and experts from Brunel University in London.

Mr Spencer, who lives with his wife Jodie and their two children in Evesham, Worcestershire, came up with the idea while running a recycling plant. He said his high-tech appliance, which takes rubbish and turns it into energy to fuel a boiler, is as simple to use as a wheely bin.

A revolutionary appliance that powers a home’s boiler using rubbish – including plastic, nappies, food and even garden clippings – is due to go on sale next year. (Pictured) A nappy being placed into the device

The British invention, called Heru, is about the size of a washing machine and is the brainchild of inventor Nik Spencer and experts from Brunel University in London

‘It will take your nappies, your plastic, paper, cardboard, food, garden trimmings. Close the lid and switch it on,’ he said.

‘Even those really difficult plastics, like your coffee cups, yogurt pots and things that are really difficult to recycle, are made from fossil fuels, and all we are doing is taking that right back to its basic form as a fuel source and then combusting that just like any other conventional boiler.’

And as it moves from the drawing board to commercial production, it has been suggested the Heru – Home Energy Resources Unit – could become as commonplace in a kitchen as washing machines and dishwashers, while diverting millions of tons of rubbish from landfill.

The business’s new partner, James Clark Technologies, will start manufacturing and selling the Heru next year. Although the price tag for the first generation is estimated at about £19,000, so putting them out of reach for the mass market, it is expected to eventually fall to about £3,000-£4,000.

The appliance could provide more than 40 per cent of a typical household’s hot water needs while turning their rubbish into little more than a teacup of ash that can be flushed away.

Mr Spencer, who lives with his wife Jodie and their two children in Evesham, Worcestershire, came up with the idea while running a recycling plant

The Heru technology involves a three-stage process, which slowly turns the waste into a charcoal-type material that is then burned to run a boiler. The company says its system is far greener, with a lower carbon footprint, than having rubbish collected by the council and carted off to be buried in landfill or burned for electricity in a commercial incinerator.

Mr Spencer said: ‘The average home produces around 2.5kg (5.5lb) of waste materials per day and that will produce about 44 per cent of their hot water requirements.’

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