The Peepoo Bag: A Biodegradable, Single-use Toilet
Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It’s a single-use toilet for slums in the developing world where there aren’t permanent facilities. From The New York Times:
Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces.
This is a great invention. Not only does this bag give people a more sanitary way of dealing with their waste, it also reduces plastic trash and provides some fertilizer. It may seem a little gross, but in slums the alternatives are often much grosser. Wilhelmson plans to sell these for 2 to 3 cents each. I imagine the challenge will be getting them distributed.
Science + charity = everyone will be able to eat ice cream for free one day; I’m serious here. But let’s work on fixing...
can be knotted and buried,...layer of urea crystals breaks down
This is amazing.
Great idea and all, but saying PEEPOO is just plain awesome.
OMG THIS IS BRILLANT!
replacement idea
this seems like a neat idea…but I can’t help thinking that it would be hard to use.
 
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