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The Peepoo bag (pat.pend) is a personal single use toilet, that sanitise the human excreta shortly after the defecation, preventing the faeces from contaminating the immediate as well as the larger environment.
The toilet is a high technology product for a low economy. As with the original Tetra-Pak it uses a minimum of material whilst providing maximum hygiene.
Recognizing consumer need the Peepoo bag is formulated from a bottom up perspective putting the users need first. Ergonomically designed to be easy and hygienically to use, simple and rational to produce and thus possible to be sold to the groups with the weakest purchasing power, the Peepoo bag offer a sanitation choice for both the individual as the society-public as large.
Personal
The Peepoo bag (pat.pend) is personal as in personal computer, it is mobile as in mobile phone and micro as in Microsoft. User-friendly and advanced, yet simple and cheap, the Peepoo bag offers a high degree of contemporary status.
The Peepoo bag is personal in the sense that it can be used whenever and wherever needed. It can be used Now, there is no need to wait for public or political action. Since never used, never occupied and always clean, it allows the user complete privacy.
The Peepoo bag can work as an every day toilet or as a complementary at night, at work or at school. Due to its low price it can be used regularly at home or only when ill. It can be given as a gift.
Since no investments or up-front money are needed, the use of the Peepoo bag do not pledge the future.
Soft approach
The Peepoo bag is leaving the fixed and hard structures for a soft approach to sanitation and excreta management. Soft approach means opening up for different services systems to establish themselves. After use the Peepoo bag offer a value as fertilizer which enables collecting and disposal systems to arise, informally or formal, private or public, small scale or large scale. They can evolve over time slowly or fast according to contextual circumstances.
The design of the bag offers a clean and hygienic way of excreta management helping to cut the stigma normally connected with this service.
The Peepoo bag thus has the capacity to work as a development strategy on different levels.
Independently sustainable
Due to its self-sanitising function the Peepoo bag, even if no collecting or disposal services are available or not yet developed, a discarded Peepoo do not contaminate the environment. The traditional link between water and sanitation is thus cut. As a single unit the Peepoo bag is independently sustainable. Every user contributes to society.
The Peepoo bag (pat.pend) offers a sanitation solution adapted to user needs without andangering the environment
