One of the best known may be Terracycle, which got its start selling fertilizer from worm poop and now has all sorts of backpacks and the like created from recycled juice pouches and other used stuff.
The development would then build a database of its canine residents and could compare poop found in verboten places with the master list and identify the culprit, a la the OJ trial or way too many TV crime shows to count.
"Vampire squids eat mostly 'marine snow' a mixture of dead bodies, poop, and snot, " the institute's news release says, citing published research by its senior scientist Bruce Robison.
In its first four years, Terracycle raked in about half-a-million dollars in revenue selling liquefied worm poop at large retail chains such as Wal Mart, Target, and Home Depot.