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1. 분뇨가 거름이 되는 과학적 설명이 있을까?
2. 쉽게 이해되는지.. 동의하는지.. 자극적 소재의 낚시글은 아닌지
3. 실제 저소득층에 도움이 될 만한지?
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Sweden's Peepoople company is beginning production in Nairobi and expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh
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This is the VOA Special English Development Report.
The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a personal toilet called the Peepoo. Anders Wilhelmson is the Swedish inventor of the idea. He wants to give poor people in developing countries a simple way to improve their lives.
The toilet is a single-use bag made of environmentally friendly plastics. The inside is treated with urea, a chemical commonly used as fertilizer. A natural reaction kills harmful organisms in the waste. It reduces the waste to fertilizer that Anders Wilhelmson says is safe for growing food.
Anders Wilhelmson: "When the feces is sanitized, all the pathogens are inactivated and killed, it is a valuable fertilizer. It's full of [nutrients] that we need so, you can just bury it in a pot and grow whatever you like."
The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste breaks down into ammonia to be taken up by plants. Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.
He is an architect and a professor at Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. He became interested in the idea of sanitation after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities. One of the most common complaints he heard in developing countries was the lack of toilets.
He worked with others to design the invention. He launched the project in two thousand five, and the next year started a company called Peepoople.
The company is beginning production in Nairobi. It expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh. Full production could reach about half a million bags a day.
Peepoople plans to sell the bags for two to three cents each. Anders Wilhelmson says people can get back ten times what they paid by using the resulting fertilizer to grow vegetable gardens.
The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation. Many have no choice but to use the outdoors. Poor sanitation leads to infectious diseases that kill more than one and a half million people a year, mostly young children.
Jack Sim is the founder of the World Toilet Organization, a nonprofit group working to improve conditions.
Jack Sim: "This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are all living in [the] modern world. And strangely, many of them [own] radio, television, hand phone and no toilet."
He says the "sanitation marketplace" and inventions like this one are the best way to help people meet a most basic need.
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms. You can find transcripts and MP3s of our programs at voaspecialenglish.com. I’m Steve Ember.
★ 생각나는 질문
1. 분뇨가 거름이 되는 과학적 설명이 있을까?
-> 자세하진 않지만 있었음. 분뇨를 넣은 백 내부에 요소가 처리되어 자연적으로 유해성분을 없앰.
그것이 좋은 거름이 되기도 함
2. 쉽게 이해되는지.. 동의하는지.. 자극적 소재의 낚시글은 아닌지
-> 이해는 잘 됨. 그리고 인상적임. 개선의 범위를 넘어 위생+거름+화장실 문제까지 연결시키는
비즈니스 모델 창출에 박수를..
3. 실제 저소득층에 도움이 될 만한지?
-> UN에서 사주면 도움이 되겠지. 누가 1년 후를 위해 2,3달러를 내고 쉬야를 할까..
10배 이득이라는 근거는 기사내에 없음.
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