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.