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History and Design of the Bathroom Part 7: Putting A Price on Poop and Pee
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I took some serious abuse in comments when I wrote Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet, questioning whether we needed a high-tech toilet solution. Commenters wrote: "This article is a disgrace and a sham." Niels Peter Flint, who I respect and have written about here, writes "The problems around human waste are ENORMOUS and here you just ridicule a very serious and honest approach to come with NEW & INNOVATIVE solutions."
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Bill and Melinda are making a big investment in " a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world." The foundation notes that a billion people have to shit in the open, and billions more lack a safe, reliable toilet or latrine. Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the
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Want to compost, but not sure where to start? Confused about the difference between hot compost and cold compost? Considering worm composting, or perhaps even grub composting?
Whether you have a gigantic garden and oodles of time and energy, or a balcony and an ovebooked schedule, there is a composting technique that is right for you. Here's a tour of the most common—and some more unusual—forms of composting.
Feel free to share your own tips with readers in the comments.
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