The fertiliser is distributed to local farmers and can be used for everything from small crops to fish farming. The toilets allow the collection and conversion of human waste into 100% natural fertilizer. Our solution uses the local farming industry and the challenges it faces to create a sustainable solution.Īgriculture micro-enterprises build bespoke EcoSan toilets which replace pit latrines in accessibility, cleanliness and longevity.
However these communities being rural means they have an increased dependence on subsistence lifestyles. How our solution worksĪ large proportion of communities facing this challenge are rural communities, where developing infrastructure is incredibly difficult and costly, thus the poor sanitation leads to the contamination of nearby water sources, agricultural land and livestock. The solution is simple, solve the need of an individual and thus incentivise them to solve the needs of their community.Īfter piloting this solution for 3 years, myself and my co-founder have forgone the traditional employment routes to set up Wessex Social Ventures (WSV) a vehicle to scale this and other social solutions. In actual fact the solution has existed for years in one form or another, and it took a group of enterprising students from Enactus Southampton to piece the puzzle together. It is an issue where a solution that can scale and be sustainable in communities living on less than $3 a day, has been elusive. The problem of inadequate sanitation plagues 2.4 billion people around the world.
This is why the SDGs greatly impact one another, therefore in order to solve the SDGs in the most effective way, we need to implement solutions which tackle one SDG by solving another. Society is constructed in this causal way. The world is a complex network of causes and effects, where any ‘cause’ can create multiple ‘effects’ across multiple systems. With the launch of the SDGs, a far more ambitious and complete set of goals than the MDGs, we must think beyond designing bespoke solutions to address a single issue.
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