W EEKLY EDITION JULY 11, 2018
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Portable Protest Toilet for Women
A graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven in The
Netherlands is crea ting awareness while providing a
solution to the lack of enough public toilets for women.
"Men were peeing in public, in corners, in the streets,
and they got rewarded with toilets," says Elisa Otañez,
after her research uncovered that there were 10 urinal s
for every public toilet in the city. Her solution is quite
the sight, and hard to miss. Made with bright yellow
tubular steel and canvas, her mobile privacy shield has
the words FREE TOILET and OCCUPIED BY WOMEN
printed in bold black lettering and surrou nds a
polystyrene container designed for hovering over
rather than the traditional sit - down situation. She
learned through her research in several Dutch cities
that 61 percent of women do not sit down when using
a public toilet and 85 percent will only go number one.
We wonder if the statistics would be the same or worse
here in the U.S.
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A Clean Sweep of Waste
The Swachh Bharat mission in India is attracting more
companies to the campaign to revolutionize toilets. EP Kamat
Group out of Goa has created a bio - digester toilet and is
speedily installing it in homes, hotels and businesses throughout
the state. The waste is charged with bacteria from cow dung
feed, which helps it breakdown completely in water. All is
reused as the wastewater is put toward gardening and the
methane gas goes toward cooking. Perhaps the best news is
coming from the railways, as the y will be installing the toilets on
all trains by 2019. If you've ever been on an overnight train in
India you'll be happy to hear it.
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