Inspiration+&+Improvement

Our inspiration for our project was the PeePoo bag. The idea of PeePoo is to help people with their sanitation problem. Unlike regular plastic bags, the PeePoo bag is biodegradable where it is made up of 45% renewable materials so it can just degrade in the soil. (LiveOAK Staff on April 14, 2009) If it was a regular plastic bag then people would just put their waste in it and throw it somewhere it will just create a dump site. One of the main benefits from this is that it helps conserve one of the most important resources for the people which is water.



Our plan to improve this bag is to use more than 45% of renewable materials and instead aim for as high as 100%. The closer, the better. 45% of the renewable material is biodegradable although the rest aren’t so the 55% of the remainder becomes trash. It is still a good idea but the more can improve the bag to make it all renewable materials, the better it is for the environment. With the idea of PeePoo people just open the bag and put the waste in it but by doing that they are still contaminating their hands and they have to get rid of it by washing their hands but we are trying to make it so they don’t have to because it will just dirty the water. “The system doesn't require any water, other than to wash your hands after use.” (LiveOAK Staff on April 14, 2009) With our improvement on the bag, we plan on using strings so that they can attach it somewhere allowing their hands to be free. []

In Kenya they are using plastic bags instead of a biodegradable which is creating more harm with the amount of waste build up.

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