Tanzanian Frustration with Infrastructure Funding
This is a quotation from the EcoSanRes discussion list. It hits the central issue of sewer systems, we’re willing to pay more for less, because we have a cultural preference for water-borne...
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Earle Barnhart & Hilde Maingay on Sanitation Alternatives
We received a lovely e-mail from Earle & Hilde, who have been busy illustrating alternative urban sanitation systems that can solve Cape Cod, Massachusetts’ ongoing aquifer poisoning. Great flow...
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Diagram of Types of Composting Toilets
Ah, at last I found the simplest illustration of types of composting toilets. It’s from a review of household dry sanitation practices around the globe put out by Toilettes du Monde in France. The full...
View ArticleThe 90s: US starts land applying sludge, Swizterland stops
In the 1990s, Switzerland banned the re-use of sludge for any agricultural purposes because of the high heavy metal and other persistent pollutants. Austria, and Sweden also banned such re-use. The...
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Eco-Toilet Summit in Cape Cod Saturday July 16th
Falmouth, Massachusetts is continuing the conversation about how to manage their wastewater conundrum. The community’s current wastewater systems are threatening groundwater and the current options are...
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Talk at Research Club this Sunday
Check out the video of Mat’s talk on why bathrooms are gross. Warning, it’s gross. We’re talking at noon on Sunday for our friends at Research Club. It’ll be their 19th Brunch and the first oen...
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Portable Composting Toilets for Multi Day Events
The Cloacina Project with design and implementation from PNCA’s graduate students in Collaborative Design created an open source hardware platform for toilets, urinals, hand sinks and privacy screens...
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The Emergency Sanitation Handbook
Our students in the Sanitation, Hygiene, and Integrated Technology lab at PNCA have released the first draft of a hands on guide to managing your own sanitation after an emergency. It’s a fun, fresh,...
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Constructive Interference: Opening March 19th
Mat’s hand sink design, our bathroom posters and the Emergency Sanitation Handbook from the PNCA class will be on display later this month in Atlanta, GA. The show is a collaboration between the Center...
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