Samsung – Bill Gates: Alliance of giants for your toilet bowl – See photo

Excrement is not a trivial matter, it is a serious one when it comes to hygiene, especially when the powerful South Korean conglomerate has “allied” Samsung and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Samsung announced Thursday that it has completed a project it started in collaboration with the foundation in response to the Reinvent the Toilet challenge.

Samsung’s answer to the challenge is a safe prototype toilet designed for domestic use. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) is the research and development division of Samsung Electronics. He collaborated on this project with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

SAIT started working with the Gates foundation to reinvent the toilet in 2019. They recently completed the development of key technologies and also successfully developed a prototype that has also been tested.

This announcement follows the August 16, 2022 meeting between Samsung Electronics Vice President, Lee Jae-yong and Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where they discussed the outcome of this project (photo). Ideas were also exchanged for further global initiatives to contribute to the international community.

So what does this revolutionary toilet do? SAIT spent three years researching and developing the basic design. Samsung has created technologies related to thermal treatment and bioprocessing that kill pathogens from human waste and also make the released sewage and solids safe for the environment. Through this system, treated water is completely recycled, solid waste is dried and burned to ash, and liquid waste goes through a biological treatment process.

Don’t expect a big event for that new toilet. Samsung will provide royalty-free manufacturing licenses for patents related to this project to partners in developing countries as the project enters the commercialization phase. The company will continue its work with the Gates Foundation to ensure the mass production of these technologies.

Access to safe sanitation infrastructure remains a challenge in major developing countries around the world. WHO and UNICEF estimate that over 3.6 billion people they do not have access to secure infrastructure. This results in half a million children under the age of 5 die every year from diarrheal diseases. This collaborative effort between Samsung and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has the potential to address this grand challenge.

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