Mt Everest to get an eco-friendly toilet

CONTEXT:

  • Mount Everest will get an eco-friendly toilet at a Chinese campsite 7,028m above sea level in an ongoing campaign to deal with the peak’s waste problem.

BACKGROUND:

  • Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world’s highest rubbish dump.
  • The toilet will make it easy to collect the human waste produced by the climbers.
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