Toilet Board ​Coalition Announcing the ​2019 Toilet ​Accelerator ​Finalists!

The following  Sanitation Economy Businesses  have been shortlisted to be part of the Toilet Board’s unique corporate accelerator programme. Finalists enter a final round of the evaluation process for selection of the 2019 cohort to be announced on  World Toilet Day - November 19, 2018. 

ATEC  produces, sells and distributes small-scale pre-fabricated biodigesters turning kitchen, farm and human waste into biogas for rural farming households across Cambodia. The ATEC Biodigester is designed to withstand the challenging conditions of flooding, high groundwater and earthquakes, that developing countries face. 

Live Clean  (EFlush) provides access to public toilet and shower facilities that are clean, safe and affordable in peri-urban areas of Lusaka, Zambia. Live Clean toilets are built from cargo containers. The waste from the toilets is pushed into water recycling Biodigestion systems that make the water reusable for showers and toilets through membrane filters. The solid waste is converted into bio-gas and fertiliser.  All lighting and water pumps are powered with solar energy. 

Fluid Robotics  provide robotics and AI technologies serving the water, agriculture and sanitation sectors in India. Crawler systems travel through sanitation and water pipes, with various sensors mapping their exact locations and identifying their conditions (cracks, fractures, etc.). This prevents water losses, and water contamination by sewage. 

Sanitation Africa Limited  (SAL) designs innovative toilet solutions suited for high water table and collapsible soils, and upgrades existing latrines into hygienic facilities creating sustainable and dignified sanitation solutions for Kampala, Uganda. SAL also provides pit and septic tank emptying services using a locally made semi-mechanical pump in areas that are otherwise hard to reach, and produces cooking briquettes made from dried sludge. 

Through social entrepreneurship and by taking into account the complex environment of the slums,  Eau et Vie   (Water and Life)  builds secured running water networks and develops innovative, sustainable communal toilet blocks comprising of Biofil toilets and showers, each serving 3 families, in the slums of Bhashantek (Dhaka), Bangladesh. 

Lootel  is a smart toilet cafe providing cleanwashroom services using a Pay, Use and Redeem concept. Customers pay for the use of the toilet and redeem a voucher at the Lootel Café. Lootel is an innovative public washroom service based in Indore, India. 

India-based company  Saathi  manufactures biodegradable and compostable sanitary pads made from banana tree fiber to provide a rash-free sustainable experience and reduce pad and plastic waste. Saathi biodegradable pads degrade within 6 months of disposal- 1200 times faster than plastic pads. Each woman purchasing Saathi pads on e-commerce saves 60 kg of pad waste over her lifetime and subsidises pads for low-income women.

Joelex  makes sanitation accessible and affordable for the urban poor, especially women, children and the youth in Kampala, Uganda, by building toilets, showers and waste to water treatment plants within slums and markets. Joelex has designed waste treatment plants to provide various byproducts such as domestic and drinkable water, biogas and fertiliser.

The Toilet Accelerator  works with promising sanitation businesses for a duration of 12 months through a small business-large business mentorship programme model.

Since 2016, the corporate Accelerator has supported sanitation businesses and entrepreneurs serving low-income markets to help them overcome barriers to scale in order to bridge the gap of 2.4 billion people still lacking access to sanitation.

More than toilets alone, we are supporting commercially viable businesses at every point of the Sanitation Economy, including sanitation infrastructure, service providers, collection, treatment, transformation (up cycling of toilet resources - waste), digital and preventative healthcare. 

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• Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
• Sanitation
• Sustainable Sanitation
• Water & Sanitation
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Water sanitation
• Water & Sanitation
• Sanitation and Hygiene
• Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)