If anyone accused you of selling s**t you’d probably be offended, but in this case there’s really no need to be.

A non profit organisation called ‘OpenBiome’ wants your faeces is prepared to pay up to $13,000 a year for it, and you get to feel all virtuous at the same time. Too good to be true? Well maybe, because they don’t just want any old faeces!

The organisation is involved in helping people suffering from a bacterial gut infection called ‘C.difficile’, which can be alleviated by introducing healthy faecal matter from a donor into the gut via endoscopy, nasal tubes or in tablet form. This faecal matter needs to be super-healthy and so if you’re to profit from this you’ll need to pass a whole raft of medical tests first. Only 4% of applicants make the grade.

Once your poop is accepted $40 is the going rate for a deposit, with a $50 bonus if you make five deposits a week. That works out to the $13,000 a year potential earning.

Now that’s definitely not to be sniffed at.