08 July 2008

"Spend a penny" - get a penny!

"Scores of people queue every day in Musiri, a town in Tamil Nadu, to be paid 10 paise (around 0.8 pence) for each visit [to a public lavatory]. The trips are entered on a “user card” and totalled up once a month, usually earning about 50p.

The government backed scheme... is a response to the common practice of Indians relieving themselves in the open, as sanitation still eludes millions.

And the waste does not go to waste – local authorities are also collecting 250 litres of urine every day to be used as a crop fertiliser, an official from the state’s agricultural university said."

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