Do you Poop Sustainably? Alternative Toilets Save Water & ReCycle Waste

March 4, 2014
By
Do you Poop Sustainably? Alternative Toilets Save Water & ReCycle Waste

This guest blog post is from Atara Jaffe. Sustainability. From mainstream media to blogs, sustainability is not just a buzzword, but is frequently used as a term to embody practices related to survival. Everyone from homeowners to architects are incorporating “sustainability” tactics to slowly transform the way people think and live. While solar panels have...

Read more »

BioLoos helping meet needs of 600 million toilet-less Indians

December 24, 2013
By
BioLoos helping meet needs of 600 million toilet-less Indians

This guest blog post is from Sanjay Banka. At PHLUSH, we’ve been tracking some of the cool new technologies in India. After noticing the social enterprise awards won by Banka BioLoo, we suggested they write for our readers. Mixing business with socio-environmental good is the way of life at India’s Banka BioLoo, a firm  pioneering...

Read more »

C’mon Give a Shi_t!

November 19, 2013
By
C’mon Give a Shi_t!

This guest blog post is from Doneice Sandoval of Lava Mae. When you think about people who lack access to sanitation, people in Africa and India or other third-world countries come to mind. You don’t think of people in the U.S. The truth, however, is that tens of thousands of men, women and children living on...

Read more »

Reflect Before You Flush

November 18, 2013
By
Reflect Before You Flush

This guest blog post is by John Gonzalez from the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District for World Toilet Day 2013. Please check out our ToiletsUSA page for more info. Follow #ToiletsUSA, #LiftTheLid, and #CelebrateTheToilet. Your ability to “flush and forget” is taken for granted. Period. In the US, access to proper and efficient sanitation does not represent...

Read more »

School Toilets are Key to Girls’ Education: Virtual Conference Nov 21

November 15, 2013
By
School Toilets are Key to Girls’ Education: Virtual Conference Nov 21

This guest blog post is from Murat Sahin from UNICEF for World Toilet Day 2013. Please check out our ToiletsUSA page for more info. Follow #ToiletsUSA, #LiftTheLid, and #CelebrateTheToilet. The theme of the second annual Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Virtual Conference to be held on 21 November 2013 (8:00-17:30 EDT) is WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’...

Read more »

Toilets around the World

November 14, 2013
By
Toilets around the World

This guest blog post is from Mary Landwer for World Toilet Day 2013. Please check out our ToiletsUSA page for more info. Follow #ToiletsUSA, #LiftTheLid, and #CelebrateTheToilet. Thanks to a popular children’s book, we understand from an early age that Everybody Poops. What many don’t understand, though, is that not everyone has a toilet to do it...

Read more »

What is the value of a restroom?

November 11, 2013
By
What is the value of a restroom?

This guest blog post is from Kyle Earlywine from Green Flush Technologies for World Toilet Day 2013. Please check out our ToiletsUSA page for more info. Follow #ToiletsUSA, #LiftTheLid, and #CelebrateTheToilet. At risk of sounding like an old Mastercard commercial, some things are just priceless – like not having an “accident” in a public setting. Forty...

Read more »

World Toilet Day

November 4, 2013
By
World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day on November 19 has been officially recognized by the United Nations! On July 24, 2013, the UN General Assembly declared November 19 World Toilet Day. “Everyone needs a place to go!”, said UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Ellison.”Today’s decision to mark World Toilet on 19 November will help raise awareness and...

Read more »

Jack Sim / WTD 2013 Media Kit

November 3, 2013
By

Jack Sim will be in the United States with limited availability to speak with journalists from 17-20 November 2013. Please contact one of us to schedule an interview. The POOP Project | Shawn Shafner | 347-385-5186 | shawn thePOOPproject org PHLUSH | Abby Brown or Carol McCreary 503-984-4081 | abby phlush...

Read more »

Toilets USA: Let’s Take Action

October 18, 2013
By
Toilets USA: Let’s Take Action

Access to water and sanitation is a human right many Americans do not enjoy. In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly declared access to water and sanitation a human right. The next year, UN Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque reported on her Mission to the United States of America, citing among groups denied this...

Read more »

Our Mission Through education and advocacy, PHLUSH helps local governments and citizen groups to provide equitable public restroom availability and to prepare for a pipe-breaking seismic event with appropriate ecological toilet systems.

Our Vision Toilet availability is a human right and well-designed sanitation systems restore health to our cities, our waters and our soils.

Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human (PHLUSH) was founded in Portland, Oregon and today collaborates with groups across North America.

PHLUSH is a member of the World Toilet Organization and a partner in the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance.

Blog Archives