Pump Aid and the Elephant Toilet

[ethicalgoods]

Yes - that's right

[jesuisbenjamin]

So the pit with feces is eventually closed and a tree planted in it - while the toilet-cake is moved on top of a new pit?

[ethicalgoods]

The Elephant Toilet slab diverts the urine into a compost pit (filled with grass and other organic matter). In this way the sterile urine, which contains the majority of the fertilising nitrogen contained in human waste, can be used to enrich compost without increasing the risk of disease caused by handling faeces

[Kikuyumoja]

What happens to the urine?