{"id":56572,"date":"2018-02-16T05:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56572"},"modified":"2018-02-16T05:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T05:07:04","slug":"this-social-enterprise-in-kenya-is-turning-human-excreta-into-clean-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/02\/16\/this-social-enterprise-in-kenya-is-turning-human-excreta-into-clean-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"This social enterprise in Kenya is turning human excreta into clean fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29-year-old US environment engineer Andrew Foote knows that even discussing human poop is considered cringe-worthy by most. Yet that did not deter him from starting his firm Sanivation in 2014 that provides toilets to poor households in a small Kenyan town, collects their human waste and turns it into clean fuel.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, an average of 17,000 under-fives die of diarrhoea every year. Foote was convinced these deaths could be avoided if the children had access to a clean, safe toilet.\u00a0So that\u2019s what he did! He provided toilets to some of the poorest householders in Naivasha, a large market town north-west of Nairobi at the cost of just $2 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Today, his firm Sanivation collects the human waste of its participating householders and processes it using a solar thermal technology of its own design. It is then converted into charcoal-like briquettes, which are sold in the local community for cooking and domestic heating.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.positive.news\/2018\/economics\/social-enterprise\/31394\/bricking-it-turning-human-waste-into-clean-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.positive.news\/2018\/economics\/social-enterprise\/31394\/bricking-it-turning-human-waste-into-clean-fuel\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29-year-old US environment engineer Andrew Foote knows that even discussing human poop is considered cringe-worthy by most. Yet that did not deter him from starting his firm Sanivation in 2014 that provides toilets to poor households in a small Kenyan town, collects their human waste and turns it into clean fuel. In Kenya, an average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}