The fund’s activities are aimed at improving living conditions in a number of countries
Bill Gates, known to most as the founder of Microsoft Corporation, has recently focused on his research foundation, which was created with the aim of developing and creating new technologies in the field of sanitation.
The fund’s activities are aimed at improving living conditions in a number of countries where there are similar serious problems (for example African or Asian countries).
One of these innovations was an unusual toilet that does not require sewage and drain water. The invention was presented in China. The advantage of such a device is that the toilet does not need to be connected to the sewer, nor does it need to use water, which is already catastrophically scarce in some countries.
The toilet system does not send waste through the pipe to the general sewer, but accumulates everything in a special container, where the recycling process begins. As a result, the remnants of human activity under the influence of chemical reagents turn into a useful fertilizer used in the agricultural industry.
Bill Gates said that the development of the project took several years. Today, an ecological toilet can already be put on the market. The genius of our times believes that in a few decades such a productive way of waste disposal will be used in almost all houses. This will help the world get rid of the big cleaning stations.
In recent years, the foundation, founded by Gates and his wife Melinda, has invested over $ 200 million in projects whose main activity is to identify opportunities for turning human waste into useful products (fuel, fertilizer and even water).
According to statistics conducted by experts, poor sanitary conditions cause the annual death of about 0.5 million children under the age of 5. In addition, it damages the global economy, as approximately $233 billion is allocated every year to solve this problem.
