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SOIL Research Projects


Project ongoing since: 2009 • SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods)
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Purpose

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.

Activities

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

Images

Image: Soil waste transformation © soil

Countries of activity

Location of main activity

Further information

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

Contact information

Sasha Kramer
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Filter tags

Community sanitation Composting, vermicomposting (solid waste), composting toilets Container based systems (CBS) Emptying and transport (non sewered) Faeces or faecal sludge Fertiliser Food security and productive sanitation Latin America & Caribbean Local NGO Operation, maintenance and sustainable services Other funding source or unspecified Practitioners Resource recovery Specific to one or several countries Toilets or urinals (user interface) Treatment of wastewater or greywater Urban informal settlements (slums) Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs)

Links

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

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods
Port-au-Prince
Haiti

Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a 501(c)3 US-based non-profit organization dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti. SOIL promotes integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction. SOIL has been working in some of the poorest areas in Haiti since 2006 to facilitate the community-identified priority of ecological sanitation (EcoSan), where human wastes are converted into valuable fertilizer. EcoSan simultaneously tackles some of Haiti’s toughest challenges – providing improved sanitation to millions of people who would otherwise have no access to a toilet and producing thousands of gallons of fertilizer a week which is critical for agriculture and reforestation.

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