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Bio-digester Toilets: Sustainable Solution to India's Sanitation Challenge


Project ongoing since: 2012 • Banka BioLoo Pvt Ltd

Purpose

The bio-toilet consists of an easy to install super-structure, a multi-chambered matriced bio-tank that holds the bacterial culture and supports the treatment of human waste.

Activities

Sanitation facilities in India are alarming with over 600 million people (half of India's population) having no access to toilets. People are forced to defecate in the open. This poses health hazards, raises environmental concerns and leads to water contamination. This is coupled with the Indian Railways’s open-chute toilet system wherein the human waste drops on the rail tracks. Untreated human waste or the fecal matter lying in the open is a grave threat to the well-being and good health of the society and the environment. Banka BioLoo, a firm committed to environmental betterment and social uplift, is supporting to eradicate the malaise of open defecation. By providing eco-friendly bio-toilets (or bioloos), the enterprise is helping meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG-7) and actively supporting the government’s vision of an open defecation free society.

Banka’s solutions address the following needs/pain points of the end-user:
• Meet the need for basic, easy-to-install and hygienic human waste disposal mechanism in areas with no infrastructural facilities
• Address the need for a cheaper and easy-to-operate alternative to the traditional waste disposal system.

The bio-toilet consists of an easy to install super-structure, a multi-chambered matriced bio-tank that holds the bacterial culture and supports the treatment of human waste. The system doesn’t need any external energy for treatment, rather gives out pathogen-free effluent water that is apt for gardening and similar purposes; and biogas that could be used for cooking or heating. The system meets all regulatory and environmentally compliances and enhances the socio-environmental fabric of India. Moreover, the bio-digester technology was initially developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the defence personnel. The enterprise is pioneering this, in an integrated approach, and taking this effective and innovative sanitation solution to the civil population with varying applications.

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Biogas systems Decentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS) East Asia & Pacific Energy: biogas Practitioners Private sector, including social enterprises Product design and engineering Specific to one or several countries Treatment of wastewater or greywater

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Banka BioLoo Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
India


Banka BioLoo Pvt Ltd, having its roots in Banka Enterprises – a firm committed to environmental betterment, is keen to eradicate open defecation. Using the patented bio-digester technology, and its various applications, we are a human waste management company. Our offerings include bio-toilets for families, public toilets and toilets for primary schools, bio-tanks for Railways and other clients, bio-digesters for bio-toilets and bio-tanks, conversion of septic tanks to bio-tanks.

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