Design and Practice
Jojo Linder (Kompotoi, Switzerland)
Mobile Toilet as a Resource
Jojo Linder is the co-founder of Kompotoi, Switzerland. Jojo Linder was a Project Manager and Event Organizer has organized sports events himself. Through studying permaculture he became aware of compost toilets and wanted a better solution for the event industry. Kompotoi has around 400 mobile toilets in use in Switzerland.
Chris Canaday (Fundación Omaere, Ecuador)
A Simple Waterless Urinal for Use in Homes
Chris Canaday is a biologist from California who has lived in the Amazon for 30 years, promoting Ecological Sanitation for the last 20 of those. He also works on birds, protected areas, ecotourism, and natural medicine.
Tore Knos (Disaster Aid USA)
Developing Countries: Pollution and Fertilizer
Dr. Knos received his PhD from the University of Georgia in 2001 and taught Construction Management at the Southern Polytechnic University in Marietta GA. He also had a company that performed commercial and residential inspections throughout GA before selling in 2010. He is currently retired and volunteering in disaster relief worldwide with Disaster Aid USA, a Rotary affiliated organization. He has extensive experience with sanitation including as a licensed plumber for over 45 years. Dr. Knos has written a book on sanitizing human waste and using it as fertilizer by using a Urine Diverting Dehydrating Toilets (UDDT). Rotary has listed him as a sanitation expert and uses him to evaluate sanitation related grant applications. He has worked in developing countries worldwide.
Aldo Jansel (Aztech Sustainable Sanitation, LLC, USA)
Presenting the Aztech Cali 2.0 Portable Toilet STATION
Aldo Jansel is the founder of Aztech Sustainable Sanitation and has been researching, building and developing sanitation solutions for the last four years in 31 countries. Thanks to funding from a Clifbar, he’s finished the second version of the Calli Portable Toilet prototype which treats human excreta with solar thermal energy and produces potable water and enriched biochar. Aldo has written a book called “Swimming for Toilets” where he narrates the journey of swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar to fundraise the construction of compost toilets in México. When not thinking about shit, Aldo can be found swimming, cycling and running around the world.
