Flowering compost urinals adorn smelly corner of Paris


PARIS (Reuters) - Two compost urinals topped with miniature gardens have been installed at a notoriously smelly site in Paris - behind the Gare de Lyon station in the east of the French capital.

The bright red installations with openings at the front are fitted on top of bins containing straw, sawdust or other vegetal matters.

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