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"#SustainableOrganicIntegratedLivelihoods or SOIL is an American nonprofit developmental aid organization co-founded by Sasha Kramer and Sarah Brownell in 2006. Its goal is to develop integrated approaches to the problems of #poverty, poor #PublicHealth, #agricultural productivity, and #EnvironmentalDestruction in #Haiti. SOIL's efforts have focused on the community-identified priority of increasing access to #EcologicalSanitation, where #HumanWastes are converted into #compost. More than 20,000 Haitians are currently using SOIL ecological sanitation toilets.

"#EkoLakay is a container-based household sanitation service in #CapHaitien and #PortAuPrince. Clients pay a low monthly service fee of around US$4. The service includes toilet rental, the provision of at least one bucket of carbon-based cover material each week, as well as weekly pick up of buckets full of wastes. SOIL designs and builds low-cost ecological sanitation toilets made from locally available materials. The primary design that SOIL builds are called urine diversion, or dry toilets that separate the #urine and the #feces through the use of a specially designed #ToiletSeat. The sterile urine is used directly as a #fertilizer or diverted into #SoakawayPits. The feces is treated through a process of managed #composting [#ThermophilicComposting] to ensure that all #pathogens have been killed and the resulting #compost is safe for #AgriculturalUse.

"#EkoMobil is a mobile toilet service [#PortAPotty] that SOIL offers to construction sites, cultural events, and others in need of mobile sanitation. EkoMobil uses the same container-based ecological sanitation technology as EkoLakay.

"Waste collected from SOIL's ecological sanitation toilets, as well as the ecological sanitation toilets of other organizations in Haiti, are treated through a process of managed thermophilic composting at SOIL's composting waste treatment sites. The process exceeds standards set by the #WorldHealthOrganization (#WHO) for the safe treatment of #HumanWaste. SOIL tests all wastes in their laboratory before bagging and selling it under the brand name #KonpòsLakay. Since 2006, SOIL has produced over 250 metric tons of compost.

"In 2011, SOIL published The SOIL Guide to Ecological Sanitation. This document describes SOIL's five years of ecological sanitation experience in Haiti. It covers topics such as toilet designs, management strategies, composting techniques, and lessons learned. The SOIL Guide is available in English and Haitian Creole."

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#SafeComposting #OrganicCompost #RebuildingSoils #HighHeatComposting #ZeroWaste #SoilHealth #SoilDepletion