They call me ‘Mama Poo’,
Anne told me matter-of-factly as we strolled through a dusty pathway in Silanga, a small neighbourhood in the expansive Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. And I like that,
she added.
Anne Nudge is a sales representative for Peepoople AB, a Swedish social enterprise that, last October, launched a pilot project in Silanga marketing and selling The Peepoo
— a single-use, personal toilet that sanitizes human waste quickly, preventing it from contaminating the surrounding environment.
After just a few weeks, the bag transforms the waste into a nutrient-rich fertiliser.
The Peepoo bags, which sell at a subsidised (by PeePoople) cost of three Kenyan Shillings (four cents) each, are used at home, then returned to one of two drop-off
points where customers get a one Kenyan Shilling refund/incentive for returning the bags.
While treated bags may seem a rudimentary, even crude form of sanitation, looking at the alternatives make the solution seem a little less far fetched — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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