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Podcast: Business Is Boring
Episode: The NZ entrepreneur solving some big toilet problems
Description: This week on Business is Boring, Billie Jo Hohepa-Ropiha tells Simon Pound about inventing the sewer-safe wet wipe alternative BDÉT.There is a big problem lurking in our sewer pipes. Flushed wet wipes, even the supposedly flushable ones, are major contributors to ‘fatbergs’ – huge clumps of wipes and other stuff flushed down toilets that are blocking sewers and generally grossing people out everywhere.What if you were able to put something onto regular toilet paper that would make it function like a wet wipe, but without all the problems? That was the brainwa...