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The important thing about recycling your waste this way is that you don’t need water, electricity, or costly equipment, which makes it ideal for developing countries where poop is a serious problem—last month, the United Nations reported that a billion people still go to the bathroom in the open air, endangering public health in many of the world's poorer regions.Jenkins has been working on solving this problem by spreading the gospel of the Loveable Loo. In 2006 he went to Mongolia to teach residents how to build his poop boxes, and last April, he hosted a workshop in Mozambique, but his greatest success may have been in Haiti. He visited the island nation in 2010, as it was recovering from the disastrous earthquake that hit it in January. Since then the system has spread across Haiti to a dozen schools and orphanages, a bunch of low-income families in the town of Santo, and a host of other places.Other countries where Loveable Loos could have an impact include Ghana, where 10,000 public schools don’t have toilets, and India, where half the population, or more than 600 million people, defecate in the open air, according to estimates by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Humanure, proponents say, could solve the problem of open defecation and simultaneously provide a boost to agriculture at a minimal cost.
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