Sanitation

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Is our distaste for toilet talk halting sanitation improvements in the developing world? Alan Porritt/AAP

Loosen up, it’s time to talk about toilets

By Robin Canniford, University of Melbourne

Bodily waste can be an embarrassing subject, but one that most of us can avoid thanks to efficient toilets and sewers. Nevertheless, this embarrassment may be holding back improvements in sanitation where…
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Toilets aren’t just a bin for human waste – they’re a receptacle for future fertiliser. Gates Foundation

The other benefit of sanitation: from human waste to human food

By Andrew Hamilton, University of Melbourne

What goes down our toilet is commonly viewed as waste. This makes intuitive sense because separating people from their excreta – sanitation – is arguably the single most important public health objective…

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Using copper against ‘superbugs’

Medical University of South Carolina

Using copper objects in hospitals reduces infection rates, a US study has found. Patients were randomly assigned to rooms…

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