Peter Morgan (2024) The Ventilated Arborloo - A version for children living in the rural areas.

The Arborloo is a simple toilet that was designed to recycle human waste within a shallow pit where the contents were transformed from a vile and disease forming material into a product in which trees could grow and thrive without the user having to be in contact with the material. The ventilated Arborloo is an important addition to the variety of ecological toilets available for people […]

Peter Morgan (2024) The Ventilated Arborloo What goes on underground?

The Arborloo is a simple ecological toilet that was designed to recycle human waste within a shallow pit where the contents are transformed from a vile and disease forming material into a product which trees can tolerate, thrive and grow in without the user having to be in contact with the pit material. Many articles have been written by the writer about the Arborloo and […]

Peter Morgan (2023) The Ventilated Arborloo

The Arborloo is a simple pit toilet using a shallow unlined pit between 1m and 2m deep, depending on soil type and firmness, which is protected at the surface with a ring beam made of concrete or cemented fired bricks. When the excreta is mixed with soil, leaves and ash the pit contents slowly change into a medium in which plants can grow. When the […]

Hebert, P. (2010) Rapid assessment of CRS experience with Arborloos in East Africa

This rapid assessment reviewed sanitation activities by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in East Africa, in particular the promotion of the Arborloo – an innovative latrine designed to help achieve sustainable and scalable sanitation improvements in rural Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda. The assessment explored the factors affecting Arborloo acceptance and sustainability, the scope and approaches for scaling up the latrine in these countries and in Tanzania, as well […]

Ecosan Club (ed.) (2010) The ROSA project

During the last years EcoSan Club was partner of the ROSA project. The ROSA (Resource-Oriented Sanitation concepts for peri-urban areas in Africa) project proposed resources-oriented sanitation concepts as a route to sustainable sanitation and was funded within the EU 6th Framework Programme, Sub-priority "Global Change and Ecosystems". The project had duration from October 2006 to March 2010 and was implemented in four pilot cities: Arba […]

Shangwa. A., Morgan, P. (2008) How we made an Arborloo which can be upgraded to VIP The Chisungu Primary School Water and Sanitation project

Morgan, P. (2007) The Arborloo book for Ethiopia How to make a simple pit toilet and grow trees and vegetables

Shewa, W., Geleta, B. (2010) Arborloo for household sanitation, Arba Minch, Ethiopia Case study of sustainable sanitation projects