“A Perfume that Smells Like Poop?”
A very interesting post was recently published on the personal blog of Bill Gates. It is about odor, and it focuses on the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s partnership with Firmenich and how...
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Prototype Update, 17 November 2016
Ahmedabad, India At the prototype site at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, we successfully ran 8 cycles of the drying unit processing real solid materials (human feces). The photo below illustrates the...
View Article“USAID Announces Partnership with Toilet Board Coalition”
Huge news emerged from this years World Toilet Day in the form of a global alliance between USAID and Toilet Board Coalition. “The new Global Development Alliance between USAID and Toilet Board...
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“The Next Challenge for Cities: Integrating Multiple Sanitary Solutions”
The infographic below was recently published by Worldbank.org. Like any well made infographic, it shows the increasing sanitation challenges our cities face as they continue to grow exponentially. It...
View Article“ISO’s two-step solution to improving sanitation for 2.4 billion people”
Providing sanitation for every human on the planet by 2030 is going to take a Herculean amount of effort. Many projects just like our own, have discovered tough barriers that have to be overcome in...
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“The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls.”
Investments in health, education and empowerment of 10-year-old girls can triple a girl’s lifetime income. These and 9 other facts about adolescent girls are highlighted in this United Nations...
View ArticlePrototype Update, 1 December 2016
Liquid System Update North Carolina, United States A new fully automated Beta 2.0 system was recently installed at the RTI testing laboratory in the US. This biggest change for the liquid system was a...
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Prototype Update, 16 December 2016
Solid System Update In the video below, our very own Stef Teleski takes us on walk through of the current system setup that we have, to deal with solid waste. In it, she covers the system as a whole,...
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Prototype Update, 6 Jan 2017
Liquid System Update: North Carolina, United States Throughout the month of December, the liquid team focused on testing out the new baffle tank design. The new baffle tank is a great success with data...
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Prototype Update, 17 Feb 2017
Liquid System Update Last month we briefly introduced the idea of the “user-day equivalent”. You might be wondering what that means, exactly? As we develop, deploy, and test our systems, we need a way...
View Article“Do it differently: Toilets are not enough to achieve sanitation, India must...
In a recent article in The Times of India, Sunita Narain brings up the tried and true dilemma of how throwing new toilets at a city, without an existing waste treatment infrastructure, is not a valid...
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Prototype Update, 26 Feb 2017
Solids System Update: This video shows RTI International’s Gates Foundation funded toilet running a full-loop on the solid processing side for one of the first times. The cycle, shown below in the...
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International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day and our project proudly recognizes, and stands in solidarity with, the incredible women and girls all around the world that face a day-to-day adversity that is...
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A Recent Odor Consultation
We had a nice half day visit with Marc and Siddharth from Duke University at the RTI-Duke site at CEPT in Ahmedabad on February 25th. Marc and Siddharth did some initial measurements on key-point...
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Chris Buckley from UKZN in South Africa Visits Our CEPT site.
Following the FSM4 conference in Chennai, we hosted Chris Buckley from UKZN in South Africa at our CEPT site. “Prof Buckley is a chemical engineer and has spent his career as a contract researcher in...
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World Water Day
March 22nd, as always, marks World Water Day. It’s a time for us all to stop and recognize the fact that many people on this planet do not have access to clean water, or a sanitation option to clean...
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“The cost of a polluted environment: 1.7 million child deaths a year…”
A recent news release from the World Health Organization delivers some sobering data on the literal death toll a polluted environment can deal to children. “More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5...
View Article“Holistic approach to sanitation issues”
A recent post on dailypioneer.com by M Venkaiah Naidu talks of a more holistic approach being needed to achieve total sanitation in India. There no doubting the progress that’s been achieved since the...
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RTI Hosts The Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center...
On Friday, March 17th, RTI hosted representatives of the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (RDECOM) for a pre-demonstration and technology review of the TOWR (Toilet with...
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