Closing the gap on safe and sustainable sanitation for all
Toilets For All is a Swiss foundation working to empower entrepreneurs, investors and organisations to deliver safe access to toilets for people living off the grid, leaving no one behind.
Want to be part of the solution to water pollution, poverty, equality and circular economy?
The waterless toilet industry holds a potential of 4 billion customers and a five-fold return on invested value.
Read why our mission is a ripe opportunity waiting for you:
THE BENEFITS:
THREE CLEAR VALUE STREAMS
HUMAN
4 billion people on our planet do not have access to functional toilets or or safe sanitation. These people are located on all continents, in urban and rural settings. Most affected are African and Asian communities as well as some Latin American.
By facilitating access to waterless toilets in these communities, we can contribute to SDG 6.2, and help provide safe sanitation and new sources of energy and fertiliser for crops.
Establishment of off-grid container-based sanitation significantly reduces disease (cholera, diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid, polio, dysentery), child mortality, pollution of waterways and lakes, and increases privacy, safety (violence and rape), dignity, and children’s school attendance. And the collection and recycling process creates jobs and industry, supporting equality and economy.
ENVIRONMENT
Pollution of the environment through human waste is a major issue in many parts of the world. In addition, flushing a toilet requires 6 m3 to 25 m3 of drinking water per person/year and all sewered sanitation solutions require processing in water-based treatment plants.
Waterless, container-based sanitation eliminates both water usage for sanitation and treatment, as well as the pollution of waterways caused by insufficient sewage or collection systems.
With waterless toilet technologies implemented at scale, whole communities, rural as urban, on as off-grid, can benefit from the immediate positive environmental gains: substantial water savings, avoidance of waterway pollution, and the opportunity of turning human waste into energy or even organic fertiliser for crops.
CIRCULAR
Human waste is a valuable resource and can be used in multiple ways. It contains fertilising nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, each fundamental in plant nutrition and repurposing faeces into fertiliser therefore has immense beneficial impact on agriculture in off-grid communities.
By separating faeces and urine at source in urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDTs) and completely eliminating the use of water, we can directly facilitate circular reuse.
Waterless toilet technologies and systems employ a range of different processes (i.e. pyrolysis, composting) to create both fertiliser and bio bricks for energy, all resulting in new resources, revenue streams and CO2 absorption. Even the market for CO2 certificates is slowing developing.
“We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.”
— Kofi Annan
THE INVESTMENTS:
FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATE ORGANISATIONS
Want to create a positive impact worth USD $5 for each $1 invested?
Impact investments in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 have a five-fold value yield due to container-based sanitation solutions’ knock-on effect on both human rights and quality of life, the environmental effect and avoidance of waterway pollution, and the positive impact on the community’s economy with circular resource and job creation.
We are now seeking philanthropic investments from foundations and corporates for future projects. get in touch and let’s work together to establish toilets for all!
THE EVIDENCE:
INSIGHTS, PROOF OF CONCEPT, STUDIES, CASES AND MORE
