Katie Cordrey
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The Peepoo bag is a long thin bag with a lined with gauze that is distributed to populations with inadequate options for dealing with human waste. The inside of the biodegradable bag is coated with urea, a non-hazardous chemical fertilizer. Once urine or feces make contact with the urea, decomposition begins. The material is broken into ammonia and carbonate, driven by naturally occurring enzymes in the waste. As the urea is broken down, the acid value of the material increases and sterilization of the waste begins. Viruses, bacteria and parasites carried in the waste are killed over a period of a couple of hours to a few weeks.  In the developing world clean water and sanitation are very scarce. This is due to over population and lack of infrastructure and poses a serious health risk to the affected populations. In these parts of the world not only do they lack the infrastructure to attain clean water, they also lack the infrastructure needed to deal with all their waste, so they end up contaminating the little water they have. Around the world, one child dies every 15 seconds from to contaminated water...
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