Mosan: Combining Circularity and Participatory Design to Address Sanitation in Low-Income Communities

Mona Mijthab (), Raluca Anisie () and Omar Crespo ()
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Mona Mijthab: Mosan
Raluca Anisie: Mosan
Omar Crespo: Mosan

Circular Economy and Sustainability, 2021, vol. 1, issue 3, 1165-1191

Abstract: Abstract The health and environmental impact of unsafe sanitation affects more than half of the world’s population. The lack of access to safe sanitation affects disproportionately rural populations in low- and middle-income countries, where progress is also shown to be slower. The sheer scale of the problem, combined with the variability of climate, geographies, and socioeconomic conditions, requires a variety of adaptable, scalable, centralized, and decentralized solutions working cohesively. This paper presents the case of Mosan, an off-grid, market-based sanitation solution, in order to display how such sanitation approaches can contribute to bridge this gap by addressing the communities most at risk. Mosan is a decentralized, circular sanitation solution encompassing the whole sanitation chain from containment, collection, transport, transformation, and reuse. Focused on community-scale systems, Mosan is applying participatory design principles and co-creation to enable community engagement, raise awareness, trigger creativity, and support local innovation.

Keywords: Ecosan; Container-based sanitation; Circular economy; Biochar; Co-creation; Participatory design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s43615-021-00118-w

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