Perfume researchers lend their noses to design less odorous latrines
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
About 2.5 billion people worldwide don't have access to sanitary toilets. Latrines are an option for many of those people, but these facilities' overwhelming odors can deter users, who then defecate outdoors instead. To improve this situation, fragrance scientists paired experts' noses and analytical instruments to determine the odor profiles of latrines with the aim of countering the offensive stench.