Student SOIL Advocates Build an Awareness Toilet

For the last four years, Miami Beach Senior High senior Cheldina Jean has been preparing to exhibit an Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) toilet in a public space to call attention to the fact that over 1/3 of the world’s population does not have access to improved sanitation and nearly one billion people are without safe drinking water. Cheldina learned about Ecological Sanitation by joining the high school service club, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods at Miami Beach Senior High, or SOIL@MBSH, and she has come to appreciate the ways in which EcoSan captures the nutrients in waste while killing pathogens that - left untreated –enter fresh ...