GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- "We beat them up with a hammer first," said Bill Hallman of Gwinnett County's Department of Water Resources. "And then we take and crush them down even further."

Just the thought will make anyone say "Woo!"

And that's just the beginning of the process when it comes to recycling toilets in Gwinnett County.

"Then we go in there and we pull out all the plastic in the seats," Hallman said.

The warehouse manager for the county's Department of Water Resources told 11Alive News the toilets are broken down into tons of of pieces of porcelain - then used for a little bit of everything from porcelain chips to brand new kitchen counter tops.

Hallman says everyone turns out a winner in the end.

"Recycling it, it's going to be used constructively, so everybody wins," said Hallman. "We're looking to save the county money. We're looking to make good usage of our water."

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A University of West Georgia graduate student is still in the hospital battling a flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after a fall from a homemade zip line. 

Aimee Copeland's doctors say they may need to amputate her remaining fingers and toes, but they want to save her palms to aid in future prosthesis fitting. 

Copeland's breathing tube is preventing her from speaking, but her parents say they are able to communicate with their daughter. 

"We know our daughter well enough to where we can almost figure out a little bit about what she wants to know," said her father Andy Copeland. 

As a result of her medication, Aimee remembers little about her accident. Her family has not told her about her leg amputation and say they are focused on remaining positive.

ATLANTA -- 11Alive News is sounding the alarm.

Research shows African-American women, many living in Atlanta, are being infected with HIV -- so much so that the new cases are being compared to African countries. 

Data collected in 2009 from the health departments in Clayton, Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Douglas and Gwinnett counties indicates infection rates of HIV and AIDS, respectively, as follows: (This is for women and men combined, all races.)

Fulton: 4,213 and 7,342 

DeKalb: 3,257 and 3,983 

Clayton: 847 and 943 

Cobb and Douglas: 1,030 and 1,288 

Gwinnett: 884 and 1,041

In another study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, black women make up 60 percent of all new HIV cases among women. That's 15 times higher than white women and four percent higher than Hispanic women.