Teniqua Treetops - Eco friendly, self catering tented treehouses - Sedgefield, near Knysna, Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa.

COMPOSTING TOILETS:

The Environmentally Friendly way of reducing black water

The tree houses make use of Ecosan dry toilets.
Secondary composting of the waste results in a rich soil-like fertilizer free of pathogens. Since no water is used, there is no energy required for pumping or filtering.

In a flush system, contamination of the output stream with detergents, grease and household chemicals prevents its use
as a fertilizer. Dry and composting toilets provide a pure source of nutrients ready to be returned to the land.

DID YOU KNOW?

AND WHAT'S MORE ......

Almost half of the water consumed in an average house in Mexico is used
for the W.C.?

Ecological dry toilets do not contaminate water

A family of five who
uses a water toilet contaminates more
than 150 thousand
liters of water to
transport 250 liters
of excrement in
one year?

Dry toilets produce about 500 liters of dry fertilizer and 5000 liters of liquid fertilizer as they transform the excrement and urine of a family in one year.

Water toilets destroy aquatic life and contribute to the general scarcity of potable water.

¿Why talk about caca?

The urban sewage system perishes more from its successes than from its failures. Its greatest and maybe only exploit, is proclaimed by the name itself of "inodoro" (without smell): urban sewers and the w.c. have succeeded in removing the smell of caca which impregnated pre modern cities. Furthermore - although historians are beginning to doubt this - it is attributed with having diminished the risks of cholera and typhoid.
Ecologists are just beginning to evaluate its costs: destruction of aquatic life, contamination of aquifers and, in Mexico, the destruction of soil stability due to groundwater pumping.
The role of concealing remains: thanks to the "inodoro" and the sewer system, caca has been made almost invisible for the inhabitants of "nice" neighborhoods. But by hiding waste, sanitation – as experts call the sewer system and the collection of garbage - has made us impotent to confront waste. All cultures have made the broom into a magical symbol and that must be for some reason; the broom is an instrument of power over our vital space. Sanitation took from us the smell and the broom in one sweep.

Jean Robert

Teniqua Treetops Eco Treehouse Accommodation is at Sedgefield, just off the N2,
on the magical Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa

P.O. BOX 831, SEDGEFIELD
TEL:+27 (0) 44 356-2868 EMAIL: queries@teniquatreetops.co.za