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.
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Science + charity = everyone will be able to eat ice cream for free one day; I’m serious here. But let’s work on fixing...
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can be knotted and buried,...layer of urea crystals breaks down
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This is amazing.
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this is an amazing idea
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Great idea and all, but saying PEEPOO is just plain awesome.
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OMG THIS IS BRILLANT!
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replacement idea
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this seems like a neat idea…but I can’t help thinking that it would be hard to use.
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