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Composting is not about you. It's about your planet.

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Add earthworms to your pit latrine

It's a natural treatment

The success of your sanitation project depends on keeping odours, maintenance costs and health hazards low.

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Composting earthworms provide a natural solution by breaking down human waste.

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Add earthworms into your pit latrines to improve sanitation, maintain project integrity, and embrace eco-friendly practices.

Nature’s Solution to Sanitation

Pit latrines can be much better

Lower contamination

Earthworms reduce pathogens by up to 99% by eating them.

Less odours

Aeration by earthworms reduces anaerobic conditions - preventing odour.

Reduced flies

Earthworms eat fly eggs, reducing spreading of flies

Less frequent emptying

Earthworms reduce pit waste by up to 50%

Tiger-toilet earthworms

Tiger worms thrive in organic waste, quickly breaking it down into nutrient-rich compost.

 

By adding tiger worms to your pit latrine system, the decomposition process is accelerated, leading to reduced waste levels and cleaner latrines without chemicals or costly servicing.

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They don't need much care - just drop them in your latrine and let them start eating.

 

Just avoid dropping cleaning chemicals in there and they will be fine.

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Cost Estimate

2kg of earthworms are needed per person that a toilet serves

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Batch of 10kg = R29,900 Ex VAT, Incl. shipping anywhere in SA.

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For international shipping, Phytosanitary Certificate is available.

Effective treatment for pit latrines

In 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a global competition to find solutions to the problem of pit latrine filling.

 

The lead innovation to emerge from this project was adding Tiger Earthworms to a pit latrine, called a Tiger Worm Toilet.

 

Tiger Earthworms reduce the volume of faeces by converting it to carbon dioxide, water, ammonia, and vermicompost (worm faeces), which is dense and has less water. This can result in reducing the pit's fill rate by 50%.

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Oxfam and UNHCR have installed over 1200 TWTs across 6 countries due to the success they've found.

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Doing your part towards the SDGs

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The Compost Kitchen (Pty) Ltd

Reg. No. 2019/166214/07

 Johannesburg, South Africa

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