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How can we improve sanitation and better manage human waste in low-income urban communities?
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Inspiration
Think about everything from high-tech and portable latrines to household cleaning products and emergency-kit waste bags. The broader you go, the more possibilities we’ll have to consider.
Some questions we’d like you to consider:
- What does “clean” mean to you?
- What innovations have you seen in waste-management and sanitation in developed nations or emerging markets?
- What analogous situations can we think about as we explore this space? Can we find inspiration in the way waste is managed at construction sites, campgrounds, hotels, or even on cruise ships?
- What effective business or service models related to cleaning, waste removal, or sanitation are you aware of?
Emergency toilet roll
This toilet roll is not for regular use, but you got to open it only when the regular one suddenly gets over. Even though it's just a roll of toilet paper, at least one mind quite well imagined an annoying situation where there is no toilet paper ...
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Silje Lian
December 12, 2010
10:01PM |
Answering inspiration phase questions.
Wise usage of resources
Answering inspiration phase questions.
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Sara Cunha
December 12, 2010
07:49PM |
Somehow linking cell phones into the picture - making sanitation sexy!
Knowing that there's more cell phones than toilets in Africa, and that they're an aspirational purchase for families of low income, how can we link this sexiness into toilets?
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Andy Narracott
December 12, 2010
01:12PM |
WASSUP Diepsloot
WASSUP (Water Amenities Sanitation Services Upgrading Program) is an initiative to improve the public ablution facilities in the township of Diepsloot, Johannesburg, by residents for residents. Initiated by Global Studio (see www.theglobalstudio.c...
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Charlotte Fliegner
December 12, 2010
01:41AM |
Sanitation In context and a great starting point
Sanitation when starting from scratch must be extremely inclusive and the design solution must follow and respect the already in place traditions and behaviours.
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PABLO QUINTERO
November 29, 2010
03:55AM |
Poo on your Poo - Gardiner CH4
Loowatt is a innovative toilet concept meant for developing nations that's made entirely out of recycled feces. Designed by Virginia Gardiner at the Design London Imperial College, Gardiner created the toilet in response to seeing the need for reu...
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Robb Schiller
November 21, 2010
10:56PM |
Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
Constructed wetlands can be an effective natural method for wastewater treatment.
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Alan Zimmerman
December 04, 2010
09:34AM |
Making Toilets Inviting
Does artwork make toilets more inviting and influence sanitation behaviour, especially by children?
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Meena Kadri
November 22, 2010
04:47PM |
Chamber pots
Everyone in Kumasi seems to have a chamber pot which they use for “emergencies” in the middle of the night.
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IDEO Field Team
December 09, 2010
11:36PM |
No loo, no "I do"
India introduced the No Toilet, No Bride campaign to increase adoption of latrines. This social marketing campaign has been extremely effective, resulting in 1.4 million new toilets in Haryana, in northern India.
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Jocelyn Wyatt
November 17, 2010
10:36PM |
Japanese Modern Sitting Toilet
Johan's nice overview of European automatic washing/sanitizing reminds me about the Japanese take on the modern sitting toilet: special toilet slippers for use in the bathroom, automatic cleaning and drying down below, re-use of handwashing water ...
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Vincent Cheng
November 19, 2010
02:17PM |
Advanced Technology for Water
With the advanced hydration of the technology called, "Plasma Activated Water (PAW)," for the first time in the world, we have hydration of the cells as nature intended, and when the cells receive better hydration, they are put into a state which ...
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Burton Danet
November 20, 2010
06:20AM |
Refrigeration is Hot
Sanitation isn't sexy, unfortunately. But refrigeration? That seems to be a big thing here in Kumasi.
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IDEO Field Team
December 03, 2010
05:22PM |
Waste Collection through Community Empowerment and Relationship Building
What I love about Ashoka Fellow and social entrepreneur Albina Ruiz and her Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City) initiative is that she refuses to accept that anyone should live surrounded by garbage, filth and potential disease. Albina has made it her...
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Ashley Jablow
November 30, 2010
04:44AM |
Deploy Moldering Privies to Make Gold out of Human Waste
Moldering Privies are the most cost effective and eco-friendly solution to human waste disposal
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Avi Solomon
November 18, 2010
05:15AM |
Respecting the potential of poop!
John Hall, in his song "Power", called biogas "the spirit of living things as they return to clay" How can sanitation inspire the creation of beauty? Can poetry make sanitation beautiful?
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Sabra Marcroft
December 10, 2010
10:27AM |
Soap and warm water to wash hands
I am surprised of how many males in western world does not bother to clean their hands after bathroom visits in restaurants. They are possibly spreading bacteria around all door handles and things they touch for hours after.
I understand that in ...
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Johan Löfström
November 19, 2010
11:40AM |
Take a pee, Play a game.
Designed to help men focus and aim better while using urinals, Urinal Games improve the cleanliness of public bathrooms and reduce maintenance costs. And, of course, they're fun.
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Danny Alexander
November 18, 2010
07:37AM |
Ventilation Improved Pit latrine, Ladakh
Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh, India. Arup Associates.
Described as the "world's best toilet" by Cameron Sinclair, Architecture for Humanity.
Ladakh, like many remote regions, does not have a waterborne sewage system. Arup developed a wate...
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Charlotte Fliegner
November 22, 2010
01:17PM |
Lifebuoy
I'll leave it to the Unilever folks to get the story 100% accurate, but Unilever has a soap brand called Lifebuoy that was originally marketed in the UK and US but quickly spread globally and now seems to only exist outside of the US and Western E...
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Jeff Chapin
November 21, 2010
03:39PM |
