Join the Toilet Board Coalition this World Toilet Day for a dynamic series of events celebrating the entrepreneurs and businesses at the forefront of the sanitation economy:

Public toilets are the backbone of an urban area's essential sanitation services and yet they are often found in disrepair, unclean and unhygienic. With this document and the recommendations of a...

The Toilet Board Coalition announced today that Cheryl Hicks, Chief Executive Officer, after five years at TBC, has decided to step down as CEO & Executive Officer, with immediate effect. The...

On July 29, 2020, the World Economic Forum, in partnership with Toilet Board Coalition, India (TBC), with support from Swaccha Bharat Mission Urban (SBM-U) and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai...

Joelex, part of the Toilet Board Coalition's 2019 Accelerator Program, has been building an urban-slum community sanitation centre model since 2017 and currently operates two sanitation centres...

SATO Tap is a novel handwashing station that aims to improve hygiene for millions around the world. It has a unique nozzle that releases just enough water to practice safe hygiene and is operated...

Two weeks ago we shared with you our thinking about how we can do more to support solutions for the response, and our collective responsibility as the Sanitation Economy business community...

Geneva, Switzerland, April 3, 2020 – Building on Firmenich’s donation of 20 tons of hand sanitizer in Geneva, the Group is increasing its production capacity to 100 tons for...

Kimberly-Clark’s vision is to provide the world with essentials for a better life, and today, we know our consumers and our people are counting on us more than ever to fulfill that vision.The...

COVID-19 appears unstoppable and has almost imposed a global lockdown. Yet there is faith that we will overcome this through our collective will, cooperation, intelligence and creativity. What about...

“COVID-19 is a crisis of poorly managed sanitation, water and hygiene"– Catarina De Albuquerque CEO, SWASWA’s Private Sector members are working side by side with...

Constraints can birth innovation, constraints can give focus and momentum – shining a fresh light on opportunities that seasons of comfort look past.Over the last four years at the Toilet Board...

In an experiment in 2011[1], Prof Jennifer Mueller (et al), divided a group of 73 people in two teams. Through a questionnaire, she tested each group for their preference for creativity and thinking...

In addition to $1 million donation, brand plans to donate $1 for every use of hashtag #ShareASquare and provide one million rolls of Cottonelle over the next three months

As the world’s biggest soap-making company, we are throwing our weight behind the global effort to protect lives and livelihoods from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In response to the COVID-19 virus, Firmenich, the world’s largest privately owned perfume and taste company, is adapting the production of its Geneva manufacturing sites to donate 20 tons of...

#Covid19 appears unstoppable and has almost imposed a global lockdown. Yet there is faith that we will overcome this through our collective will, cooperation, intelligence and creativity. What about...

On World Water Day 22 March 2020 the world is in the grip of a global health crisis with hygiene top of mind and top of the international agenda.What are we prepared to do now that we weren’t...

The Toilet Board Coalition and Xynteo’s Leadership Vanguard programme announce a new partnership aimed at uncovering new value in the Sanitation Economy across industry sectors.   The...

The sanitation economy has the potential to unlock 3.8 trillion liters of new resources generated every year from toilets and sanitation systems. In India alone, the sanitation economy is...

The world continues to grapple with the critical issue of sanitation, and the inability of current sanitation systems to keep pace with burgeoning population growth and rapid urbanisation. According...

Business leaders and entrepreneurs have an opportunity to embrace the emerging sanitation economy in the country for fueling sustainable growth

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) adds to its growing team two new Directors who will join the Secretariat’s management teams in 2020 to implement the TBC’s 2020-2025 strategy.  Dr....

Several large multinational companies, including Kimberly Clark, Unilever and Lixil, recently gathered in India with the World Bank, various NGOs and government officials to meet with sanitation...

MANILA — In India alone, the sanitation economy is estimated to be valued at $62 billion a year by 2021, according to the Toilet Board Coalition.Swachh Bharat, the government...

The sanitation drive in India has been led mainly by the state. Of late, private companies have begun work to make it financially viable. Cheryl Hicks, CEO and Executive Director, Toilet...

The Steering Committee of the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), has voted in its new leadership for a two year term commencing 1 September 2019. Erin McCusker, Chief Strategy Officer SATO, LIXIL...

The Toilet Board Coalition is collaborating with the European Space Agency (ESA) Business Applications team in the search for ambitious and innovative businesses to combine space and sanitation...

MEDIA RELEASETHE SANITATION ECONOMY IN THE TEA SECTOR Camellia Plc joins the Toilet Board Coalition as a project member, collaborating with Unilever, Tata Global Beverages, and the...

In 2019, leading businesses are seeing new value and business opportunities in sanitation - where you perhaps hadn’t been been looking. Sanitation is no longer a critical development issue...

Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, has argued that the cheapest source of Megawatts of energy is what he calls “Negawatts” – energy which doesn’t...

We live at a fascinating time in global health history. The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) has led to new technologies and the democratization of innovation; subsequently, society is witnessing...

Smart toilets could even yield insights into public health, says Michael Lindenmayer, the smart sanitation and digital health co-lead at the Toilet Board Coalition, a consortium of businesses and...

PUNE, India — Being pregnant, Nikita Vavale finds herself needing to go to the bathroom a lot these days. But what should be only a slight inconvenience is preventing her from leaving the house...

Sanitation is “the business of the decade,” Cheryl Hicks, chief executive of the Toilet Board Coalition, said last week on World Toilet Day. “Half the world needs toilets....

Smart toilets of the future could spot early signs of diseases like cancer and diabetes by tracking your urine.

Space age technology is being used to create the next generation of toilets which can monitor for the early signs of disease. Sensors would then beam an alert to the users’ mobile phones...

The bathroom is arguably the last bastion of privacy, but soon a new high-tech lavatory could be tracking your every movement.Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) and MIT have...

One in three people in the world lives without a decent toilet, meaning that too much faecal matter is not safely dealt with (“ Bill Gates: from software to toilets”, Simon Kuper,...

Toilet Board Coalition announces new commercial and investment partnerships for , and new members with the joint vision to accelerate the Sanitation Economy.

KAMPALA, Uganda — Poor countries around the world are facing a dangerous shortage of toilets that puts millions of live at risk, according to campaigners marking World Toilet Day by urging...

NEW DELHI — India has built millions of toilets in the past three years as part of an ambitious national effort spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and while the country is approaching...

By Cheryl Hicks, the CEO and executive director of the Toilet Board Coalition and Myriam Sidibe, a Senior Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for...

Our approach is different. We envisage a “new grid” of sanitation systems comprising flows of water, materials, energy, and data. We regard human waste as a resource, part of the natural...

Inspired by World Water Week 2018 we talked with Cheryl Hicks of the Toilet Board Coalition about attracting alternative finance into the sanitation chain.

STOCKHOLM — There was a newfound sense of urgency in the air at this year’s Stockholm World Water Week. More than 3,000 water, sanitation, and hygiene actors gathered in the Swedish...

At the recent World Water Week 2018, the Toilet Board Coalition explored the commercial and social impact opportunities for businesses willing to engage in the sanitation crisis. What exactly is the...

The Chief Operating Officer of the The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with Mediaplanet to discusses the global sanitation crisis. 

Could we be flushing valuable resources down the toilet? The Toilet Board takes a look at the opportunities for business and sanitation lurking where no one has looked.

We are proud to announce our new Strategic Project partnership with the European Space Agency - ESA and the Toilet Board Coalition partner to leverage space technologies to accelerate the Sanitation...

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), the world's first business-led platform focused on accelerating the Sanitation Economy, welcomes Veolia, global leader in optimised resource management, to its...

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) and Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group convened key stakeholders in India’s sanitation sector on 23rd April, 2018 in Mumbai, India. The roundtable discussion was...

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Peer-to-peer (P2P) business models such as these...

The global water and sanitation crisis is not a new story. Each World Water Day we review the sobering statistics with which we are becoming all too familiar: the expected 40% gap in global water...

As the Accelerator Manager at the Toilet Board Coalition, I attended the Sankalp Africa Forum, Nairobi, 1-2 March 2018. Sankalp brings together entrepreneurs, investors, corporates...

Tokyo, Japan – LIXIL Corporation (LIXIL), a global leader in the housing and buildings industry, announced today it has been awarded a contract by UN-Habitat to provide its Green Toilet System...

As world leaders gathered to discuss economic, social and political agendas at the recent World Economic Forum, a group of business leaders met to develop an Action Agenda to address the global...

Toilet Board Coalition’s ecosystem development work in the multibillion dollar Sanitation Economy draws CEO supportUnilever, LIXIL Corporation, Kimberly-Clark, TATA Trusts and Firmenich CEOs...

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, is catalysing on the new vision of “the sanitation economy” – a new business-led approach that creates an ecosystem...

The news often reports the desperate lack of access to safe sanitation faced by a staggering 2.3 billion people globally. Around the world, one in three people still lacks access to a toilet, and...

Could we be flushing valuable resources down the toilet? The Toilet Board takes a look at the opportunities for business and sanitation lurking where no one has looked.

In the world of impact capitalism, opportunities don’t come much bigger than sanitation. More than 2 billion people go without the dignity of a decent daily toilet; two-thirds of the...

North Carolina could one day be known as the birthplace of a futuristic toilet that can convert human waste into water, a puff of smoke and a dusting of ashes.Scientists at RTI International and Duke...

The Sanitation Economy - by Charlie Beevor & Cheryl Hicks21 November 2017, Pune India: On World Toilet Day, we have launched our call to action for our fellow global business leaders to join...

Learning how to master effluent is becoming a surefire way to make a financial splash. Some 80 percent of the world’s wastewater goes untreated, causing health and other societal problems....

19 November 2017: The UN, governments and civil society observed World Toilet Day 2017, with messages focused on the theme, ‘Toilets and Wastewater,’ which stressed the need for safe...

Toilets have transformed the way we live today. From health, to safety, to convenience - being able to access a toilet from the comfort of our own home no longer seems like a luxury. That’s why...

Sanitation facilities in India are super bad. And because of that, there’s a $62B market for global and local companies to help fix the problem.According to the Toilet Board...

New research reveals that adopting circular economy principles could lead to improved sanitation products and services for communities worldwide.Today is World Toilet Day, and...

Utilities and local governments struggle to deliver safely managed sanitation to residents at the scale required to serve everyone in the city.Sanitation SMEs have a critical role to play in helping...

November is a special month in the world of Toilets. Each November global stakeholders come together to shine a spotlight on a very important grand challenge – addressing the global sanitation...

“Flush and forget.”“Out of sight, out of mind.”With the invention of sewered sanitation, this has been the attitude of many of us to our wastewater. Since the health of our...

According to the World Health Organization (WTO) 1 in 3 people don’t have access to a clean and safe toilet. The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), along with LIXIL Group...

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), the world’s first business-led platform focused on accelerating the Sanitation Economy, has announced its new 2018 Cohort of the Toilet...

In an announcement made by the Toilet Board Coalition this morning, we were named as one of the 2018 Accelerator Cohort finalists. "These are the inspiring entrepeneurs and new...

“We have no interest in becoming a business” – I once heard the head of a sanitation organisation tell me. This word “business”, for so long seen as the enemy of social...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

ANNOUNCING THE 2018 TOILET ACCELERATOR COHORT! The new 2018 Toilet Accelerator Cohort and the Toilet Board Coalition Selection Committee highlight the innovative projects we will work on together.

Cheryl Hicks and Nitin Paranjpe look at how an innovative approach to tackling the urban sanitation crisis – which involves testing the world’s most imaginative solutions – could...

Three years after rolling out the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign, which among other things aims to eradicate open defecation by 2019, India is far from solving its filth problem.

It is no secret that sanitation is a challenging area for formal businesses to profit from. The use of the term “formal” here is deliberate, and important – so what does it mean?...

The Circular Sanitation Economy: The Commercial Case and Economics for the Biological Cycle in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Disruptive Innovation Festival and panel with...

Did you think how lucky you were today when you used the toilet? You probably didn’t but you should. You often only notice this habitual task when you have an urgent need and a restroom is...

Cholera is a common public health burden in cities across the developing world, and tackling the spread of cholera in low-income communities is of high priority for city authorities. Particularly...

For those who read my occasional blog posts on the Circular Economy, I have been quiet for a while. A little like the sea receding before a tsunami wave, this was because of a huge effort in my role...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

Panel discussion highlighting our SMART SANITATION ECONOMY collaboration with the Pune Municipal Corporation and a focus on Sanitation Economy opportunities in India.

· According to the Toilet Board Coalition, the Sanitation Economy presents a $US 62 billion opportunity in India alone by 2021, and if embraced, could be a significant part of the...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

Sanitation is every business’s business. The Sanitation Economy presents vast potential for global economic growth while addressing one of the most urgent grand challenges of our time,...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

A third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — live without sanitation facilities. Not having access to even a basic toilet exposes millions of men, women, and children to...

The 2017 Toilet Accelerator Cohort and Mentors discuss their experience in the Accelerator programme and their insights into the future of the Sanitation sector. On the panel: Sandy Rodger -...

The Toilet Board Coalition sat down with the Cohort and Mentors of the 2017 Toilet Accelerator to find out a bit more about what they felt were the most valuable learnings in their journey together...

Globally, millions live without sanitary toilets and with food and organic wastes rotting in the street. Maxine Perella explains how those health hazards could in fact be resources.

November is a special month in the world of Toilets. Each November we join together with our global stakeholders to shine a spotlight on a very important grand challenge?—?addressing the global...

The Toilet Board Coalition is currently looking to fill three positions in India for a January 2018 start. Applications must be received by 2 November 2017. 

Firmenich CEO, Gilbert Ghostine, reflects on WBCSD's Council Meeting and the opportunity to present a keynote on how business can be a force for good and a catalyst for the SDGs....

Sanitation economy models promise potential in water efficiency, food security and climate resilience 

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), the world’s first business-led platform focused on accelerating market-based sanitation solutions, has appointed Charlie Beevor, Global Vice-President...

In the Indian city of Pune, tricking out community toilets with Wi-Fi and sensors could be the way to create a modern waste management system and become a “smart sanitation city.”

Charlie Beevor, Unilever’s Global VP of Household Cleaning, recently attended World Water Week in Stockholm. Here he explains why and how we are involved, and the particular focus of our...

The Toilet Board Coalition and Pune Municipal Corporation, India have announced a new collaboration towards making the metropolis the world’s first smart sanitation city.The...

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced that it is collaborating with the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) to make Pune the first ‘Smart Sanitation City’ in the world. The city...

The Toilet Board Coalition and Pune Municipal Corporation have announced a new collaboration towards making Pune, India, the world’s first smart sanitation city.The Toilet...

In support of the Indian government’s Swachh Bharat sanitation campaign and Smart Cities initiative, the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) announce a new...

An even bigger challenge than toilet-building is the lack of ongoing maintenance for the toilets after they have been built

Waste-management systems in Africa and India could soon outstrip those in the developed world in terms of sustainability and efficiency.

The Toilet Board Coalition partners with Sankalp Forum, creating a call for business solutions challenge for its 2018 Toilet Accelerator India Edition. The partnership aims to identify and showcase...

JOIN THE TOILET BOARD COALITION AT SIWI’S WORLD WATER WEEK IN A SPECIAL EVENT ‘BUSINESS APPROACHES TO WASTE TO RESOURCE MODELS’The Toilet Board Coalition, a business led...

BE A PART OF THE #NEXTBIGTHING!The Toilet Board Coalition is a business platform enabling private sector engagement; connecting large and small companies through their Toilet Accelerator; and...

TOKYO – LIXIL Corp., a global manufacturer in housing and building materials, products and services, announced its SATO toilets have been selected as a finalist for Fast...

Geneva, March 27, 2017 —Fast Company has announced the winners of its premiere World Changing Ideas Awards, which honour businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that offer innovative...

Firmenich is tackling the global sanitation crisis with cutting-edge innovation and expertise, developing breakthrough malodor control technologies to ‘Reinvent the Toilet Experience.’

Dutch-Ghanaian social venture Safi Sana (2017 Toilet Accelerator Cohort) opens first POO POWER FACTORY in Accra- Ashaiman on March 15th, 2017.Ghana’s first ever Poo Power plant...

It was a special honour to host over 250 leading businesses and stakeholders this past November in Mumbai at the Global Toilet Business Innovation and Investment Summit. We have ventured to...

 After six years and many different business models, toilet startup Samagra is gaining traction in India by offering services along with clean facilities—for a fee.

There's a lot of money in people's poop. If the developing world finds ways to harvest it as they add toilets and plumbing, it will be far ahead of us in monetizing an important...

London is proud of its sewers. In 1848 and 1853 cholera outbreaks killed 25,000 Londoners, and 1858 was described as the “Great Stink.” The disease was poorly understood, but the smell...

The mobile phone boom of the last decade has given rise to the often-repeated fact that more people worldwide have access to a phone than to a toilet. The statement is usually meant to be a jarring...

On 19 November, World Toilet Day reminded us that 2.4 billion people, or one in three people worldwide, don’t have access to a private and safe toilet. This has a deep social and economic...

NOV 23, 2016 By Sarah SmithOn November 15-17 The Toilet Board Coalition hosted the 1st Global Toilet Business, Innovation, and Investment Summit in Mumbai,...

Access to sanitation is a basic human right. Yet tragically, 2.4 billion people lack access to a proper toilet. As part of Unilever’s commitment to addressing the sanitation crisis, through its...

What are the inventive solutions that will bring access to taps and toilets to millions? Our expert panel share their thoughts 1 | Think beyond waste Innovation can play a massive role...

With India’s low rankings on the global sanitation index, a number of companies have cropped up to take on the toilet market – Svadha, a social venture, is one of these.Focused on water...

On World Toilet Day 2016 we are proud to release our first film highlighting the transformative power of entrepreneurship - particularly in sanitation. We believe the 2.4bn people in need of improved...

- 1st Global Toilet Business, Innovation and Investment Summit investigates smart toilets, sanitation in the circular economy, and catalyses new...

Public-private partnerships have significant potential to accelerate progress toward the water and sanitation targets of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. On World Toilet Day (November 19), as...

Through its Sustainability 2022 efforts, company aims to increase access to clean, safe, sustainable sanitation to 10 million people by 2022 DALLAS, Nov. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/...

Lixil makes a lot of fancy toilets, but its new SaTo model (part funded by the Gates Foundation) is for places without sewers, where lack of sanitation is causing disease and death.

Bill Gates on his experience visiting Toilet Board Coalition Member Firmenich's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to learn, and experience, how they are tackling malodor. 

From IT to S-H-I-TMeet India’s unique Poop Guy, Swapnil Chaturvedi—the man who left the American dream behind and returned to India to work in his own words, “from IT to...

As the global sanitation crisis deepens and conversations on how to tackle the situation abound, the city hosted a Global Toilet Business Innovation and Investment Summit with around 200 speakers,...

The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC), the world’s first business-led accelerator for market-based sanitation solutions, has appointed Mauricio Troncoso of Kimberly-Clark Corporation as chairman,...

Celebrate World Toilet Day with us this year in Mumbai, India at the first Business Summit on Sanitation. 

The Business of Sustainable Water & Sanitation for the PoorSunday 28 August, 9-10:30AM StockholmAchieving SDG6, universal access to sanitation and water by 2030, requires a business...

Geneva, Switzerland, June 1, 2016 – Demonstrating its commitment to sustainability, Firmenich proudly hosted the Global Compact Network Switzerland’s (GCNS) General Assembly, followed by...

"A critical feature of the Toilet Board Coalition is its ability to be entrepreneurial, both in identifying bold challenges and in bringing top minds to the table to help solve them. The true...

In January 2016 The Toilet Board Coalition launched the first corporate accelerator program to facilitate private sector engagement and mentorship to sanitation businesses and entrepreneurs serving...

BY MARINA LEYTES, IMPACT ALPHA     MARCH 16, 2016 For the Toilet Board Coalition, a new toilet innovation accelerator, taking care of business is just...

November 19th, 2015 – The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) – the world’s first business-led accelerator for market-based sanitation solutions – has appointed Cheryl Hicks as its...

Triple Pundit - Thursday, Nov 19th, 2015By Cheryl Hicks, Executive Director, Toilet Board CoalitionIt is unacceptable that, in 2015, 1 in 3 people globally do not have access to a safe and...

This article was first published by Triple Pundit on November 18th 2015

The Toilet Board Coalition is delighted to announce the appointment of Cheryl Hicks as our inaugural Executive Director. Cheryl brings a wealth of invaluable experience to the Toilet Board, with over...

By Jon Springer, published in FORBES ASIA, on DEC 9, 2014  2.5 billion in the world have inadequate sanitation. For businesses, that’s 2.5 billion opportunities to increase...

By Tim Smedley, published in THE GUARDIAN on 19 November 2014  One billion people live with no alternative to open defecation, the newly launched Toilet Board Coalition says...