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2. Incinerating toilet - Wikipedia

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   An example of an early (1904) incinerating toilet from the Lexikon der gesamten Technik. An incinerating toilet is a type of dry toilet that burns human feces instead of flushing them away with water, as does a flush toilet. [1] The thermal energy used to incinerate the waste can be derived from electricity, fuel, oil, or liquified petroleum gas.

3. Latrine - Wikipedia

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   Nowadays, the word "toilet" is more commonly used than "latrine", except when referring to simple systems like "pit latrines" or "trench latrines". [3] The use of latrines was a major advancement in sanitation over more basic practices such as open defecation, and helped control the spread of many waterborne diseases. However, unsafe defecation ...

4. List of countries by access to improved sanitation facilities

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   The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation of WHO and UNICEF has defined improved sanitation as follows: flush toilet, [4] connection to a piped sewer system, connection to a septic system, flush/pour-flush to a pit latrine, ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, pit latrine with slab, composting toilet and/or some special ...

5. Outhouse - Wikipedia

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   The Swedish Pacto toilet uses a continuous roll of plastic to collect and dispose of waste. [21] Incinerating toilets are installed in several thousand cabins in Norway. [22] These toilets incinerate waste into ashes, using only propane and 12 volt battery electricity. [citation needed]

6. Container-based sanitation - Wikipedia

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   Example of a toilet used in a container-based sanitation system (urine-diverting dry toilet as marketed by the NGO SOIL in Haiti under the name of "EkoLakay")Container-based sanitation (abbreviated as CBS) refers to a sanitation system where toilets collect human excreta in sealable, removable containers (also called cartridges) that are transported to treatment facilities. [1]

7. Slopping out - Wikipedia

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   Slopping out is the manual emptying of human waste when prison cells are unlocked in the morning. Inmates without a flush toilet in the cell have to use other means (formerly a chamber pot, then a bucket, now often a chemical toilet) while locked in during the night.