Our CEO interviewed by BFM TV Paris Ile de France

Every Monday, the BFM TV Paris Ile de France channel hosts a local planet program devoted to the environment and the solutions brought within the region. On Monday, October 31st, 2022, the program interviewed Cécile Dekeuwer, the CEO of WeCo, to talk about the autonomous toilet technology developed by WeCo for 8 years.

WeCo toilets: innovative, ecological and design toilets

To start, the interview The journalist recalled a few figures:

• 4 billion people worldwide do not have access to suitable toilets, i.e. 60% of the world’s population, according to UN figures.
• This problem concerns 1 million people in France.
• A third of schools in the world do not have toilets.

The World toilet Day, created in 2001, takes place every year on November 19 to respond to this problem. This day is the opportunity to bring together the various toilets world players to reflect on solutions and make commitments for the future.

This is the case of the UN, which has committed to that “everyone has access to adequate toilets by 2030”.

In the world, this access to the toilet is also a problem within schools. Indeed, the absence of toilets would be the cause of many school dropouts, especially for adolescent girls at the time of their first periods.

In France, according to an IFOP study, one in two children would refuse to go to the toilet at school due to the lack of hygiene.

To respond to the toilet’s public issues, WeCo was created eight years ago by 8 shareholders. Working in South Korea 20 years ago, its co-founder and CEO Cécile Dekeuwer noted the country’s advance in technological toilets. Korean toilets are particularly developed, but Cécile noted a lack of ecology and sustainability.

WeCo was founded to provide an answer to this problem where nothing existed at that time. To respond to essential hygiene measures, WeCo has developed an innovative and autonomous technology to flush toilet with treated recycled wastewater.

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Taxonomy

• Composting Toilet
• Portable Toilets & Waste Management