A third of the global population doesn’t have access to a loo but forget water-flush ones – composting ‘humanure’ is an easy and viable solution
Most people don’t know how easy it is to compost human waste. All it takes is a container with a lid, a toilet seat, and a regular supply of natural dry materials. In short, you need the humble composting toilet – a much better solution to the global sanitation crisis than installing water-flush loos for the billions of without a toilet.
I started composting humanure, as human waste is often known, in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Our group of EcoSan practitioners – including Joe Jenkins, author of the Humanure Handbook – launched a pilot project in a large tent camp for displaced people in Cite Soleil to see if it was possible to provide clean composting toilets and to collect and compost all the toilet waste on-site.
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