Paid to Poop - Sustainably Scaling Sanitation in Low Income Markets

Purpose and goal: SDG #6 “Ensure availability & sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. The Hypothesis: "What if the human waste of today could become the ultimate renewable resource of tomorrow?" Simulate A Sustainable & Scalable Approach To Sanitation Innovation: - Test waterless toilets that capture nutrients for fertilizer.

-Develop a sanitation value chain that transforms human waste into agricultural products. -Explore innovative economic models as additional revenue streams. Expected results and effects: -Technical concepts validated, toilets on the market in Sweden and fertilizers undergoing tests in Uganda.

-Regenerative economic model developed that integrates business models between actors to address systemic challenges profitably.

- Physical prototypes combined with economic models engage duty bearers and provide the foundation for policy reform and innovation. Approach and implementation:

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, civil society actors and academia worked collaboratively to explore the hypothesis "What if the human waste of today could become the ultimate renewable resource of tomorrow?" Believing that the key to unlocking systemic change lies within the intersection of business, social and technical innovation, we organized ourselves in clusters around those 3 innovation areas - ensuring that the project’s operational activities were linked to the overall system change ambition.