Sustainable, low-cost, odor-free private ‘Microflush Toilets’ are currently being deployed in Ethiopia by the Global Sustainable Aid Project. This key aid project is ongoing since 2009, with continued work to steadily improve the toilet’s functionality and ease the flow of the education programs that are built around them. This MQP aims to redesign the vermiculture Digester of these toilets to improve functionality, longevity, and simplify construction. Additionally, the first wordless instruction manual for toilet installation was created, which will aid in comprehension on-site and raise accessibility as a teaching tool. A similar manual will be created to cover a student-created recycled plastic mesh filter to be installed in the toilets to tackle a lack of materials in Ethiopia.

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Creator

• Ziegler, Julianna

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 90106
• E-project-022823-141440

Advisor

• Krueger, Robert
• Sakulich, Aaron R.

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-02-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Source

• E-project-022823-141440

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-06-08