Composting is not about you. It's about your planet.
Add earthworms to your pit latrine
It's a natural treatment
Guests to your camp site or farm will talk badly about you if the toilet was unpleasant, even if everything else was wonderful. Don't let your outdoor toilet be your weakness.
Composting earthworms offer a back-to-basics, eco-friendly way to manage pit latrines. These incredible worms naturally break down human waste, reducing its volume and removing odour.
Add them to your pit asap.
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.
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.
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%.
Oxfam and UNHCR have installed over 1200 TWTs across 6 countries due to the success they've found.
Doing your part towards the SDGs
The Compost Kitchen (Pty) Ltd
Reg. No. 2019/166214/07
Johannesburg, South Africa
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