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Odor Removing Toilet System (Odorless Toilet System)

Peter J.W. Son

Project Summary
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Concise Summary: Help us pitch this solution! Provide an explanation within 3-4 short sentences.

Odor removing from the toilet is essential for your health beside take smells out from inside of the toilet bowl by using an exhaust fan.

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Your idea
Field of Work

Hygiene

Year the initative began (yyyy)

1994

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Web site (url)

http://www.ventextoilet.com

Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram:

Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?

Public information alone doesn’t change behaviors

Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?

Connect solutions to the housing & finance sectors

If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the
positioning of your initiative in the mosaic

This field has not been completed

Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?

Odor removing from the toilet is essential for your health beside take smells out from inside of the toilet bowl by using an exhaust fan.

Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?

It is an odor removing toilet system that just may change your life. Calling it the "greatest innovation in bathrooms since the invention of the flush
toilet", we have developed a system that draws unpleasant bathrooms odors through the toilet, venting them outside of the building.

We think now that most of toilets should be shifted to this odor removing toilet from the conventional ones. Odor removing toilet is more eco-
frendly environmental one than others which is not affordable to eliminate virus, bateria and bad smells.

The toilet, which looks no different on the outside feature from conventional ones uses a single channel both to remove unpleasant bathroom odors

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and to provide fresh tank water for flushing.

The toilet system keeps bathroom air fresh at all times, while also lowering noise levels and offering significant energy savings over conventional
ceiling fan systems.

The toilet system has received all necessary approvals from the health department, chief plumbing inspector and electrical inspector. We received
CSA and IAPMO certificates already.

Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?

One of the plumbing's great evolutionary leaps was when bathrooms moved indoors during the late 19th Century.
It created comport and convenienct lives, but it also brought inevitable odor intrusion and germ invasion.
Media headlines around the world are pointing to an alarming increase in any bateria or virus attacking patients in bathrooms.
Each year approx. 2 million patients are deaths by some water-borne diseases from unsafe drinking water sources according to an WHO's report.
The revolutionary odor removing system is an essential solution.

How do you plan to expand your innovation?

The international toilet symposiums are talked about "The culture of the toilet", "How to improve the environment in the bathrooms" and "Practical
means to eliminate bad smells in Public Toilets" etc.
But still very little has been progressed.

Not often can a product do so many good things at the same time.
Some day most toilets will suck air from the bowl.
The value is in the venting system!

In November 2007, 'World Toilet Association(WTA)' is founded with the theme “Toilet Revolution, Changing the World”. From the 66 countries,
ministerial level government officials responsible for health and sanitation, international organizations, businesses, civic groups and academic
institutions have gathered in Seoul, Korea.

The company will co-work with WTA from 2008. WTA will help to enhance the toilet facilities for 5 countries in 2008 with a budget 1.1 million U.S.
dollors.
Our business is introducing to U.S.A, Canada, Korea, Mongolia, China and so on.
We will expand the networking to each countries.
We have been already installed more than 20,000 sets of the toilets around the world.

Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them?

According to the World Health Organization, 2.6 billion people or 40 percent of the world’s population are lack of access to proper sanitary toilet
facilities.
We have partnership with WTA as for donation of USD5.00 per set distribute wherever in the world. We will start this program from January 2008.
This fund will be used for installation of the sanitary wares to some poor countries from 2008.
Our company became a board of directorship members for WTA.
We will contribute to help WTA's programs.

Our system is already proven by the International Association Plumbing and Mechanical Officials(IAPMO), issued with the IAPMO IGC 45-2006,
Odor Removing Toilet with Ventilation Fan System.

Our System is patented several countries like Canada, U.S.A and Korea etc.

We want to participate any good programs further as long as it is good for human beings' healthier life.

Impact

Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.

The toilet system removes malodor(max. 100%), virus, bacterias, saves a heat energy (max. 83%), saves the water(max. 50%) and reduces a
noise of ceiling fan.

What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?

This field has not been completed

How many people have you served or plan to serve?

We are expanding the business networks worldwidely.

Directly

The businesses are doing in Canada, U.S.A, Korea, Mongolia at the moment.
In near future China, Philippine and Vietnam will be started the business.
They are all independent companies, but share the same information and products.

Indirectly

Four major sanitary wares manufacturers in Korea, one in U.S.A. and two companies in China are producing the odor removing toilets for us.
A total production capabilities are more than one million pieces of toilet a year.
We are cooperate together because our system could use their models and designs without change itself. We simply add the air exhaust
channel inside the water tank, then the system works.

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 Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation?

The system will be developed with two steps.

First, the virus and baterias are to kill with a device at the air channel before exit to the out side the building.
Second, the specific element data is to collect from the olfactory receptors which is to setting at the air channel, storage to a home computer
server and send the data to the designated doctor. Then, the doctor may diagnose from the data.

Is there a policy intervention element to your innovation, if so please describe?

N/A

Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation?

All human beings must have a beneficial from the revolutionary odor removing toilet system.

Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?

We've sustained spending private financings.

Provide information on your finances and organization:

We've been financed from the federal department of Western Economic Diversification in B.C. Canada.
We are now sorcing income mostly from the commercial construction companies or distributorship through the networks all over the world. We are
not enough yet, but we expect some increasing revenues near future.

What is the potential demand for your innovation?

We think that a new concept of invention must be introduced to the people, so old ones can replace to a more good ones.

What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?

N/A

The Story
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.

Mr. Henry Martens from Abbotford B.C. Canada is invented the system in 1993 as got patented in U.S.A and Canada first. He is the sole owner of
U.S. Patent No. 4,989,276 and Canadian Patent No. 1,319,465.

Former owner of local Delmont and Pro-Am photo stdios, Martens has been thinking on the idea of an odor removing toilet for 15 years, but has
spent 5 years working on it consistently and finally completed the system.

Years of engineering refinment have gone into innovative development.

The Ventex System has no more moving parts than a conventional toilet, so mechanical problems are virtually eliminated.

Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material

I'm a chairman of the Ventex Ceramics Co., Ltd. Also I'm serving for WTA as a board of director.
I have the exclusive marketing right for Ventex odor removing system to anywhere in the world.

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