A safe, sustained sanitation service well suited to providing services in difficult contexts.
Container Based Sanitation (CBS) is a sustained sanitation service, featuring toilets with containers that are frequently sealed and collected, so that the waste can be safely treated, reused or disposed of.
The main defining feature is this frequent servicing, typically every two weeks to three times per week. Beyond this, a range of approaches and technologies are used for containment, transport and treatment, and to produce reuse products.
As CBS does not require digging, unlike sewers, pits or septic tanks, it has found a niche in many hard-to- reach or underserved contexts: densely populated informal settlements and refugee or transitional settlements, and areas with rocky ground, high groundwater, droughts, hills or frequent floods.
Learn more in our implementation guide.
The CBS service chain
