ENCLOSED

LONG-TERM

PROCESSING

TOILETS:

THE FUTURE OF

SUSTAINABLE

SANITATION

CompostEra

The Vision of Sanitation in India is about health,

dignity and safety for women and children

No more

children

dying

daily

from

diarrheal

diseases

It is high time that the needs of the most vulnerable set the bench

mark for one of the most crucial health and safety issues!

SHOULD THE VILLAGE TOILET LOOK

Like this ? Or like this ?

DO IT RIGHT the FIRST TIME

Yes India needs toilets … but toilets that users

want to use: toilets that DO protect health and the

environment, encourage personal hygiene, can

contribute to agriculture, are easy to build and not

be dependent on frequent maintenance, work

equally well as sit-down and squat-design, and are

attractive enough for people to welcome them into

the heart of a village, which brings the only crucial

safety to women and children from attacks.

Examples of successful investments

The unique expertise of our group is to

make toilets that are attractive

1. to users at a reasonable cost,

2. to the service and cleaning crew

3. yet be very cost-effective.

Fact: Initial marginally higher costs

than toilets that pollute ground water

and are repulsive to users … liked

toilets do not deteriorate nearly as fast

as the ugly mediocre ones ...

CompostEra Long Term Processing Toilets.

IMPORTANT FEATURES

Attractive to users at a low cost

Works on solar as well as grid power

No odor and therefore not attracting disease

carrying insects … odor and flies are the

prime reasons why people want flush toilets.

CompostEra Long Term Processing Toilets.

The liquid end product is a bacteria-free fertilizer

The essential nutrients comes from urine, not

from feces

Feces carries almost all of the disease causing

organisms … in CompostEra they are contained

and rendered harmless for up to 40 years.

Long-Term Processing Equipment

Key Advantages:

Simple odor-free, no-flush toilet

technology for on-site processing

Urine and water (for anal

washing) is filtered inside the bio-

digester resulting in a safe-to-use

fertilizer

The aerobic decomposition

results in no-odour outside the

building either. Therefore it can

be placed at the heart of any

community village or inside

homes

Benefits of Long Term Processing Toilets

For the Environment:

Safely contains the feces and pathogens for up to 40 years !

Yields a clean, odor-free, and safe-to-use, concentrated LIQUID

fertilizer that puts nutrients safely back into the soil

Saves the drinking water that flushing toilets would destroy

Makes no sewage no discharge no pollution !

Why don’t we make all toilets like that ? … we could !

90% of the cost of waste handling is transportation cost …on-site

treatment saves a lot of money and energy

In India, which houses 15% of the world’s population but has only

4% of the world’s drinking water, a toilet that saves water is a huge

asset.

User benefits of on-site processing toilets

For the User:

No water is used for flushing the toilets (the WC flush

does not really clean the toilet – it is just the transport)

Always odor-Free … when you come, when using it, no

odor left behind … flush-toilets do leave odor !

Comfortable to use … use and leave without worries!

Benefits of Long-Term Processing

For managers:

3d world toilets must NOT require service and

maintenance [other than cleaning the

bathroom] … because it won’t happen for the

most part but also because “servicing” is too

open for different interpretation.

These toilets are designed to “use and leave”.

Cost effective … flush installations are 3-5

times more expensive

They contain the shrinking feces for 40 years

They isolate virus, bacteria, parasites, prions

and most metabolic residue of medicines.

Works in any climate and geographical area.

• Installations outside India

• Installations within India

Live Examples

Misquamicut State Beach, Rhode Island

3,000,000 visitors per season.

Liked by 98% of the users, as

it is odour-free and kept clean.

Salisbury Beach, Mass. USA

3 Public rest room buildings along a 2 mile public beach.

Around 4 million visitors per season !

Markham Fair, Cananda

Largest Agri-

cultural Fair in

North America

80,000

visitors/day

Cast in cement

site-built system

60 toilets

Pilot projects in India since 2010

Project name: Pilot project to introduce and adapt enclosed long-

term composting for India

Location: Mohaddipur Hamlet, Nalanda District, Bihar, India

Partner: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Institute (WASHi), India

Technology – Swedish Enviroment Institute , Compostera

Funding from SEI, SIDA [Swedish Int. Development Agency]

A collection tank for the

liquid fertilizer known as

“fertila” (treated urine

and washing water) can be found

outside the processing chamber of the

sanitation and hygiene complex.

Bihar … more women’s toilets needed !

A Way Forward

Households

Schools

Highways

Public toilets

Any large gathering

Emergency toilets (refugee camps, earth quakes)

Use anywhere: all climate zones: deserts, mountains,

permafrost, Dead Sea level … Quick to build on site after

floods, earth quakes, hurricanes … for disaster relief.

HOW TO CONTACT US

SnailMail Address:

CompostEra AB

Tonstigen 6

135 68 Tyresö

Sweden

www.compostera.se

www.compostera.co.uk

www.kloktoalett.se