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How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?
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Concepting
Please tell us about the low-cost, sustainable solutions that you believe will help address waste-management and sanitation issues in Ghana. Think: products, services, business models, and systems. How can your concept(s) be executed efficiently? For this phase, we’ll add details about the current state of sanitation in Ghana as our own Inspirations, as well as provide design constraints to help you hone your concept into a winning solution. Click here to read a quick overview of some of the existing solutions that the team found in Kumasi.
Hybrid Chamber Pot and Watering Can
A Swedish startup has created a chamber pot that is comfortable to sit on that also doubles as a tightly sealed, odor-containing watering can. By diluting the urine with water, the resultant fertilized can be used to increase plant growth/crop yie...
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Vincent Cheng
January 05, 2011
07:11PM |
Preventative Medicine: Reward Sanitary Practices!
Open defecation and human waste disposal is gravely unsanitary. It's practice can contaminate drinking water and soil and cause disease and illness to quickly spread throughout a community. What if people in poor communities were paid to practice...
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Demian Repucci
January 05, 2011
05:01PM |
Financing Around Cashflow Issues
Find a way to enable families to afford a latrine purchase even with their limited cash flow. Many are already spending some money on latrine usage ($0.10-0.20 per use). Leverage this existing expenditure to finance a latrine.
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Jeff Chapin
January 04, 2011
03:04PM |
Celebrate Toilet Ownership
Building a toilet and taking responsibility for proper waste management is a big deal. It's good for a family and it's better for the community. Find some way to celebrate it.
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Jeff Chapin
January 04, 2011
03:03PM |
Decals for bathroom doors and walls
Print decals with temperature and/or pressure sensitive ink. Place them on doors and stalls in bathrooms throughout a city. If a person pushes the door open on this decal will leave their handshape on it and it diminishes slowly over an hour.
The...
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Johan Löfström
December 14, 2010
09:04AM |
PIPIBOL*: for a more fragrant and clean city!
For thousands of years homo sapiens (particularly males) looked for tire o seeking a rock or a tree to pee. We could even call it "homo peepens" ... It would will be a REALLY good idea try to get him to change that pesky habit?
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Alessandro Ortega Amaral
January 01, 2011
09:58PM |
Sanitization seal
As a way to ensure that the service provider has cleaned the portable toilet that s/he removes from the house, s/he could use a sticker or seal like this one to indicate cleanliness to the customer.
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Jocelyn Wyatt
December 22, 2010
04:22AM |
A lesson from cats and dogs!
A lesson from catty litter: toilets to be made out of bio-degradable, locally or centrally sourced absorbant materials, absomix, such as sand, sawdust or ash. After use, and just like our professors do (cats), absomix is scattered, maybe with foot...
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Ossian Hynes
December 30, 2010
03:45AM |
Plastics Waste For Furniture From Plastic Lumber
This is a community effort at solving the plastic waste generated in Ghana by getting members of the community to send all their plastic waste to a collection point to be recycled and made into plastic lumber for furniture to be used in schools, h...
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Charles Cann
December 20, 2010
01:26AM |
WOSUK: Women's Sanitation Union of Kumasi
The Women’s Sanitation Union of Kumasi is a neutral organization with a CHARTER signed by Unilever, the Kumasi government and the ‘population’ which will champion, promote and monitor healthy and safe sanitation solutions in Kumasi.
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niko herzeg
December 28, 2010
08:19AM |
Pay-for-Poop
Collection is rewarded like recycling. Collectors receive dollars not just for doing their job but for the amount collected and returned to collection centers.
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beth viner
December 23, 2010
12:16AM |
The Wisdom of a Janitor
How can we empower Janitors? By first recognizing their practical wisdom and connecting potential
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Avi Solomon
December 22, 2010
04:32PM |
Point of Poo Pledge
When are people most likely to relate to others’ sanitation problems? When they’re feeling the urge to relieve themselves of course!
Imagine if awareness/action-raising stickers/posters were placed on the inside of public toilet stalls in the d...
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Vincent Cheng
December 25, 2010
01:54PM |
Making Private Toilets Public
This concept is inspired by the following article “Toilets are being converted to bedrooms in Kumasi “ (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=165948), as its direct commentary on the toilet situation in Kumasi (the regio...
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Vincent Cheng
December 16, 2010
09:42PM |
Bundling sanitizing products with toilets
Purchasing hygiene / sanitation products provides free access to the best latrines.
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Dominique Ng
December 23, 2010
07:19PM |
Community Sanitation Engineers for Kumasi
Community Sanitation Engineers for Kumasi-To truly transform the sanitation situation in Kumasi will require the education of a new class of professionals to do the actual work of sanitation, and the work of educating hundreds of thousands of peop...
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Sabra Marcroft
December 31, 2010
07:09AM |
Rebrand the Experience and Capitalize on the Resources
Unmanaged open field toilet practice is a waste of resources and a missed opportunity. This 'natural' resource needs to be utilized! Not only that, but the entire experience needs to be rebranded and re-presented so that the community does not os...
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Demian Repucci
December 29, 2010
07:30AM |
Subwase
"Subwase" is a name created by Idiou and is given to the underground public restrooms might be built one day for low-income urban communities.
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Idia Idiou
December 26, 2010
04:44AM |
Navigation System for "Flying Toilets"
Why let the dirty toilets "fly" about randomly? Why let them create disease? Why let waste be littered around? Why not have a navigation system that directs these to a place where they can be used effectively as resources?
This concept draws in...
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Saahil Juneja
December 22, 2010
02:21PM |
Green Energy Modular Sanitation System (GEMSS)
GEMSS is a low cost means to improve sanitation and better manage human waste in poor countries. It’s a new public toilet accessible by code from SMS and work with the energy from plasma gasification technology and pyrolysis processes that convert...
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Narcisse Mbunzama
December 15, 2010
04:45PM |
