Peepoo Personal Toilet
Anders Wilhelmson, Peepoople
Peepoo is a biodegradable toilet waste bag that converts human waste into fertilizer.
Peepoo is a personal, single-use, self-sanitizing, biodegradable toilet that turns human waste into fertilizer without water. Peepoo can be used as a household toilet that helps prevent the spread of diarrheal diseases in urban slums and during emergencies to help save lives on a massive scale.
Check out their promotional video here.
Any low income areas in the developing world with difficulty supplying their inhabitants with hygienic sanitation.Interview with representative
Specifically, Peepoople saleswomen and retail kiosks are now selling Peepoos in Kibera, Kenya, and in Goma, DR Congo. The Peepoo system has also been implemented in more than 100 schools in in Kibera. Peepoo has also been successfully tested in: Boxwood slum, Durban, South Africa together with Oxfam Novib, slum areas in Mymensingh, Bangladesh together with GIZ Bangladesh Bihar, India and as emergency response Peepoo has been recently used in Pakistan and the Philippines.
Peepoople saleswomen and retail kiosks sell Peepoos directly to customers as part of Peepoople Kenya. Additionally, partner NGOs distributing Peepoos include the Red Cross, Oxfam, Caritas, ACF and UN-agencies.
To date, women micro-entrepreneurs in Kibera, Kenya sell Peepoos to beneficiaries as single units or in rolls of 25 Peepoos. The price-supported retail price is 3 Kenyan Shilling (approximately $0.03) per Peepoo. A refund of 1 Kenyan Shilling ($0.01) is given to the customer for each used Peepoo that is returned at a Peepoo drop-point.
Sanergy Fresh Life Toilets
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
Individuals in urban slums and those displaced during emergencies without access to safe sanitation.
