NonA Weekly: REVOLUTIONIZING THE THRONE ✨
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Dear readers and friends,
The sustainable future ♻️ of toilet design is centered around reducing water consumption 💧, preventing waste, and finding ways to reuse resources. Newer designs are incorporating water-saving features such as dual-flush systems that allow users to choose between a high-volume flush for solid waste 💩 and a low-volume flush for liquid waste, resulting in significant water savings 🚱. Composting toilets are becoming increasingly popular 📈, particularly in rural areas 👨🌾 where they offer a sustainable way to dispose of waste while producing fertilizer 🚜.
The sustainable future of toilet design 🚽 is about reducing waste, conserving water, and finding ways to reuse resources. These innovations in toilet design are helping 🙌 to create more eco-friendly and sustainable solutions that will benefit both the environment 🌍 and society as a whole.
1. SUSTAINABLE TOILETS THAT COULD CHANGE THE WAY THE WORLD POOPS 💩
We know how important TOILETS are in the fight against water contamination and diarrheal disease 🦠. But because of infrastructure and cost, conventional toilets 🤔 don’t always work in developing countries – and as a result, 35% of the world’s population lack access to basic, working toilets.
2. 100% RECYCLABLE ♻️ BUILDING BLOCKS MADE FROM WASTE SHAPE THIS TOILET MODULE
Using the power of construction 💪 to reshape and provide sustainable solutions to global challenges, Shikha Doogar, Shridhar Rao, Rana Sarkar, Manavi Dixit have designed India’s first 100% recyclable TOILET in Amritsar to improve public living standards. The city, like many others across India, has long struggled with inadequate amenities like public toilets and widespread misuse of these spaces.
3. NEW SUSTAINABLE TOILET THAT FLUSHES WITH SAND 🧻
Sandi TOILET designed by Archie Read is a sustainable take on the essential fixture 🚽 to provide those who live in rural or off-grid locations with a way to maximize efficiency ✨.
4. WATERLESS TOILET SYSTEM TURNS WASTE INTO ELECTRICITY ⚡ AND FERTILISER
LooWatt is a TOILET that can be flushed without the need for any water 💧, safely disposing of human waste to be turned into electricity 🔌 and fertilizer.
5. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF TOILET TECHNOLOGY? 🤔
Innovation in TOILET technology 🤖 could provide billions of people with access to sanitation, while also creating economic opportunities 💰 and conserving water
6. 3D PRINTED PORTABLE TOILET IS MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC ♻️
This sustainable TOILET is designed to compost solid waste while also tackling the sanitation crisis – using design and technology to do good sh*t 💩! It is a solution that eradicates plastic waste and turns it into a construction material that reduces the load on landfills 🤯.
7. THE STRUGGLE TO DESIGN ✍️ A MORE SUSTAINABLE TOILET
Could dry TOILETS and composting scale up to solve large-scale sanitation problems? 💭 Michigan State University’s Joan Rose is skeptical. Efforts to introduce composting toilets in high-poverty urban areas have faced many challenges, from collection trucks 🚚 that can’t fit up narrow streets to the difficulty of providing enough toilets for the residents, she said. And if you can’t solve those issues, others arise.
Stay creative and see you all next week! 👋
Daniela
