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News: Toilet Users Get Paid Money
Starting on 15 January 2008, users of
an ecosan toilet in India will be paid money. Located in Musiri, Trichy, Tamilnadu,
India, the Ecosan Community Compost Toilet (see photo at right) has been open
for 18 months. Users of the toilet will be paid 10 paise per visit - about
1/4 of one US cent. Timed to coincide with Pongal, the harvesting
festival, it turns the conventional user-pay system into a unqiue pay-the-user
system.
The reason for paying users of the toilet is that human urine and
faeces is a valuable source of nutrients for agriculture, and not simply a waste
product. The organization behhind the ecosan toilet and the pay-the-user
event is SCOPE, the Society for Commuity Organization and Peoples
Education.
(Text and image courtesy of
SCOPE)
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