SOIL Research Projects To provide public, shared, and private household UDDTs, and collects the waste for processing into agricultural-grade compost. Research activities focus on private-sector solutions to providing sanitation services.

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SOIL

Since building Haiti’s first ecological sanitation (EcoSan) toilet in 2006 and Haiti’s first urban waste treatment facility in 2009, SOIL has gone on to become one of the largest sanitation providers in Haiti. SOIL provides public, shared, and private household UDDTs, and collects the waste for processing into agricultural-grade compost. Current research activities are focused on demonstrating the potential for a private-sector solution to providing sanitation services in impoverished communities and include best practices in EcoSan, thermophilic composting, and agricultural uses of compost. SOIL's full list of papers, conference presentations, and other resources are available here.

Sample projects include:
- Ecological sanitation in emergency contexts
- DNA Extraction from compost
- Market analysis for EcoSan compost

Approach

SOIL collaborates with many universities, for example with Stanford University on this grant: "Mobile Sanitation Services for Dense Urban Slums - project re.source"

DNA extraction of compost

SOIL resources and publications

Discussion on Forum about container-based sanitation

Discussion on Forum about reuse activities

Discussion on Forum about BMGF grant for Standford University project re.source

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Sasha Kramer

Filter / Tags

Food security and productive sanitationCommunity sanitationOperation, maintenance and sustainable servicesSpecific to one or several countriesToilets or urinals (user interface)Emptying and transport (non sewered)Treatment of wastewater or greywaterResource recovery Food security and productive sanitation (WG5)Composting, vermicomposting (solid waste), composting toiletsContainer based systems (CBS)Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs) Other funding source or unspecifiedFaeces or faecal sludgeUrban informal settlements (slums)PractitionersFertiliserLocal NGO

Related Countries

Haiti