A single use toilet:
A Swedish entrepreneur is planning peepoo , a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet, which may help millions of urban slum dwellers in developing countries.
The bag, which is currently undergoing field trials in india and Kenya, is the brainchild of Anders wilhelmson, an architect and professor in Stockholm.
Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off diseases-producing pathogens found in faeces.
According to wilhelmson, he has drawn inspiration to design the biodegradable toilet from Kenyan slum-dwellers who collect their excrement in a plastic bag and dispose it of by flinging it, calling it a “flyaway toilet’ or a “helicopter toilet”
The Swedish entrepreneur has patented the bag and he plans to sell it for about 2 or 3 cents each comparable to the cost of an ordinary plastic bag.
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