AWARD YEAR
2023
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health & Well-being, Clean Water & Sanitation, Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
refugee, toilet, food, feces, refugee relief
COUNTRY
Taiwan
DESIGNED BY
Lin Zhong-Wei, Chen Yu-Ting, Hsueh Kai-Chieh, Chang Hsun-Yu
WEBSITE
https://issuu.com/zhong-wei_lin/docs/supplus_10_pages
SUPPLUS
a multi-functional relief supplies carton designed for refugees
How does it work?
SUPPLUS is a multi-functional relief supplies carton designed for war refugees or residents suffering from natural disasters. When the carton is delivered to the local area, after taking out the items inside, it can be folded into a simple toilet to solve the health concerns and environmental pollution caused by the lack of toilets. The side inner layers of SUPPLUS contain vegetable seeds, and there is waterproof and rapid composting microbial inoculant coating at the bottom. When the interior of the toilet is being filled up with feces gradually, it forms a good natural fertilizer which penetrates the inner carton to nurture these vegetable seeds. The vegetables will grow up into the outer layer in just 30 days, which can address the dietary needs of refugees.
Why is it needed?
Lack basic toilet facilities:
According to the World Health Organization, 2 billion people in the world lack basic toilet facilities, and 673 million of them can only defecate in open places such as pits and trees. Lack of toilet facilities leads to poor sanitation, pollutes land, rivers and causes environmental damage. There are even 310,000 children in the world die due to diarrhea caused by poor water quality each year.
Lack of food and undernutrition:
According to the statistics, a total amount of 79.5 million people are currently being forced to leave their homes due to climate change and war conflicts; nearly 26 million of them are UN-certified refugees, and there are more than half of them are children who suffer from stunting, severe malnutrition because of the lack of food and undernutrition. This situation also increases mortality and disease in young children ages.
How does it improve life?
It is made of double-layer carton structure, holes are punched at the bottom of both sides of the inner carton to allow feces to penetrate out, and the seed paper is pasted in the middle. There is waterproof coating on the bottom to prevent feces from seeping out from the bottom. And rapid composting microbial inoculant coating is also on the bottom to make compost. When the interior of the toilet is being filled up with feces gradually, it forms a good natural fertilizer which penetrates the inner carton to nurture these vegetable seeds.
Using procedure:
1.Delivered to refugees as cartons for shipping supplies.
2.After taking the items out, open the sides of the inner box and the outer box into a diamond shape, and fold the dust flap inward to fix them.
3.Fasten the toilet seat into the groove on the side.
4.Using as a toilet.
5.The composting microbial inoculant in the bottom made feces into natural fertilizer. Add some water to dilute it.
6.Tear open the openings on both sides.