Good News: toilets turn urine into fertiliser, a rare leopard's spotted and a tea room saved in Kent

Welcome to the good news round-up, your weekly digest of what’s going well around the globe. We hope it will give you a hit of positivity and send you off to the weekend with a smile.

These are this week’s five positive news stories

1. The eco-toilets turning urine into fertiliser

The city of Lyon (the home of Euronews) is testing a network of 16 revolutionary toilets that will recycle urine for use in agriculture.

The toilets also provide much-needed relief in the areas that need it most, with a practical solution aimed at women.

Lyon’s eco-toilets are also dry toilets, they do not use water. This means they can be installed in places where it previously wasn’t possible.

There are seven male urinals, seven female urinals and two accessible to people with reduced mobility.

The women’s urinals have been specially designed and adapted to the female anatomy, with no need to touch the toilet bowl. The project also takes into account security issues so that women feel safe when using them, and the lavatories are deliberately installed in places where there are people around. “That is to say, exposed without being too exposed, and visible to passers-by,” Mohamed Chihi, Lyon’s deputy mayor in charge of security, safety and public peace, told Euronews.

The deputy mayor says that if they, as public policymakers, have an approach in which they install facilities thinking primarily of the male user, they are “contributing to making public space more masculine,” which is a problem, and disrespectful towards the community.

As a result, they’ve come up with an approach “to make public spaces less aggressive, less macho, quite simply. All of this contributes to the peacefulness of these areas, contributes to the tranquillity, contributes to