World Toilet Organization
&
BoP Hub (Base of the Pyramid)
Jack Sim
Podcast 048 with special guest – Jack Sim | Founder | World Toilet Organization | BoP Hub | social entrepreneur and sanitation advocate | committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide
04:20 Background – Businessman – subjects that are neglected, taboo, unspeakable and unfunded – World Toilet Organization
- London – Westminster Council.
- Singapore.
09:01 BoP Hub – Base of the Pyramid – a collective term for people around the world who earn less than $10 per day – only way out of poverty is to invest in them, give them loans, training and access to opportunities.
- A social business model for sustainable sanitation.
- Working with schools – universities
16:31 United Nations General Assembly- UN World Toilet Day initiative
Sustainable sanitation solutions
22:47 Article – What a dump! Why ‘wild toileting’ has become a big pandemic problem
25:24 Toilet cleaners – design of public toilets – getting volunteers
27:50 Article – Human waste could be the future of eco-friendly aviation
31:12 Endnote from Jack Sim
ARTICLES DISCUSSED
The number of people doing their business alfresco has shot up. But what else can you do when nature calls and there aren’t any public loos?
Urinating and defecating are part of the human condition – “I shit, therefore I am” (“Coshito, ergo sum”), as Descartes almost said – and were undomesticated until the Mesopotamians invented toilets almost 4,500 years ago.
In Dorset, far too much. It says it saw a huge increase in “wild toileting” when lockdown was lifted last summer.
It is calling on Boris Johnson to make responsible tourism a priority when travel restrictions ease this spring.
Unlike traditional production methods for biofuels, the new approach described in the study uses a chemical process to efficiently remove excess water from wet waste and then isolates the combustible materials needed to make fuel.
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- Seth Doyle – @sethdoylee
- Amy Reed
- Boudewijn Huysmans