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Poo power: turning human waste into clean energy in Kenya's slums [1]

They call them “flying toilets” – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2014
Guardian (UK) [2]
Tags:
Sanitation [3], Toilets [4], Kenya [5], Slums [6], Energy [7], Waste To Energy [8], Africa [9], Open Defecation [10]

Technology Partners: MimirTech

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/guardian-uk
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/toilets
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kenya
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/slums
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/energy
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-energy
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/open-defecation