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1. Sustainable toilet
technology
Enclosed Long Term Composting
Nothing less than revolutionary
new thinking about toilets:

2. Inadequate toilet facilities --
a real killer
• 2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to toilets !
• 5 million people die each year from diarrhea and
dehydration.
• More people die from diarrhea than from both HIV and
malaria together.
• Every 15th second a child dies of diarrhea related
disease.

3. Safe toilets -- the missing link
• Every DAY, around 10,000 people die because they
drink water that has been polluted by unprocessed
toilet waste.
• In India 3 out of 4 have NO toilet. Others may have
toilets, yet feces may still leach out to infect the
available drinking water.
• We may think this is only a problem in India, China
or Africa but it is NOT…

4. Sewage making people sick
• In London, for days after a rain the Thames
river has raw sewage gushing into it
• In vacation resorts around the world, sewage
infects the beaches
• Sewage is by far the
largest polluter of
oceans and estuaries
(here seen as fish food)

5. Sewage treatment is out of
date
• “Sewage treatment” mainly consists of attempts to
separate the waste from the drinking water which
no one can do at a reasonable cost.
• The result is just less polluted sewage effluent and a
large amount of toxic sludge which no one knows
what to do with … all that at an enormous cost !

6. A costly and perilous deception
• Since neither the sewage
industry nor
governments know what
to to with toxic sludge,
they simply re-name it
• They now call it “BIO-
SOLIDS” and spread it on
food producing land … it
is poisoning and it stinks

7. This is a problem everywhere!
• The flush toilet was invented some 200 years ago to discretely
send the queens body-waste out of Windsor castle, that’s all it
was meant to do … getting rid it, out of sight, out of mind …
• Today this practice is the root of water pollution problems
everywhere: a destructive old habit of mixing drinking water
with human waste (which we are, now sadly, all too used to)
• Today we have the means to go in a new direction, to stop
destroying our drinking water AND the plant-nutrients in our
manure, as well as protecting our environment AND make the
visit to the toilet a more pleasurable on …

8. The ingenious alternative is:
Enclosed Long Term Processing:
• Contains feces with its pathogens (and medical residues) for
up to 40 years
• Yields plant nutrients as a clean, safe-to-use liquid fertilizer
for agriculture
• Cuts 90% of the cost of waste handling: WASTE
TRANSPORTATION
• Saves water used for flushing toilets
• Prevents sewage from becoming pollution

9. What does it mean ?
• 1. For the user
• 2. For the up-keeper
• 3. For the architect
• 4. For the environment
• 5. For the greater picture

10. For the user, a toilet that is
• Odor-free and quiet
• Pleasing to the eye
• Comfortable to use
• Low maintenance
• Cost effective

11. Always odor-free
Always odor-free:
• Before during and after
use
• Constant air-flow down
the toilet ventilates the
whole house and
bathroom through the
toilet
• Does not attract flies …

12. A silent fixture
• There is only a faint whisper of the fan
• Nothing to annoy you or wake you up
at night if someone “goes”

13. Pleasing the eye --
• Pleasing design
• Glossy white sanitary
outer surface
• Scratch-resistant
acrylic coating
• Easy to keep clean
• Takes up little space
• This is all users will see

14. Pleasing the eye -- inside
• Easy to keep clean
• On the inside, the optical
illusion of … NOTHING
• Inside liner and tube are
black -- so it blackens out
anything that might be
offensive to the eye.

15. Comfortable to use
“Use and walk away”
• No flushing
• No splashing :-)
• Heated sit-ring
for cold nights
• … and again
ALWAYS ODOR-FREE

16. Upkeep, service and maintenance
• CompostEra works for decades
without the need to remove
solids … very low maintenance.
• The liquid end-product is an
odor and bacteria-free fertili-
zer for use on-site or off-site
• The essential service consists
of just cleaning the bathroom

17. For the architect
• The most reliable installa-
tion is when the tank is under
the bathroom floor …
• Simple and safe, no
mechanical failures and the
least service
• Excellent for remote
locations where no grid
electricity is available

18. For the architect
The treatment tank
can also be inserted
through the wall of
a building and
installed as a bench
toilet

19. For the architect
Or placing the
treatment tank
next to the
outside wall of
the house and
open a bay in
the wall of the
bath-room. Can
be done with a
full floor or a
bench toilet …
Bench toilet
Extended bay
with floor

20. For the architect
For use in a larger
apartment building
a Jets, on-demand
vacuum system can
be used.

21. For the architect
For sports arenas, a
Jets, on-demand
vacuum system can
bring the toilet waste
to a central long-term
composting reactor
saving both water and
eliminate pollution.

22. For the environment
This is where the Long-Term Processing excels
above all others:
• There is no discharge so no pollution !
• The process generates its own energy
• It neither uses nor pollutes water
• Pathogens and drug residues are contained and
isolated in the process for several decades
• The liquid is the best safe fertilizer there is
containing both macro- and micro-nutrients

23. For the environment
• The liquid (from urine)
undergoes a process
called nitrification,
generating nitrite and
nitrate causing natural
disinfection
• This takes place in the
permanent filter-bed in
the bottom of the tank

24. For the greater picture …
When we render
human and animal
waste safe to use as
fertilizer, we also cut
pollution in half since
we don’t get run off
from both chemical
AND animal fertilizer !

25. For the greater picture …
• Animal fertilizer is the
best fertilizer we can
imagine, as it contains a
full spectrum of macro-
AND micro nutrients
• Chemical fertilizer only
contains NPK (Nitrogen,
Phosporous,Potasium)
and will deplete soils of
the crucial micro
nutrients

26. For the greater picture…
• After repeated use
of only chemical
fertilizers, the
micro-nutrients in
the agricultural
soils are depleted
• Then plants have
less resistance to
bugs and mold,
requiring more
pesticides …

27. For the greater picture …
• Chemical fertilizer makes crops
LOOK big and colorful but it
profoundly impacts nutrition,
taste and smell.
• A typical supermarket tomato
has no smell, no real flavor and
no nutrition -- we can eat a
basket full without feeling
naturally satisfied
• An organic tomato has great
scent, tastes good and after one
or two we are naturally satisfied
… “we feel full”

28. For the greater picture …
So instead of poisoning our
agricultural land with toxic
sludge from sewage treatment
plants (receiving everything
that anyone wants to get rid
of), it is high time to stop
mixing drinking water and
“wastes” and catch the plant
nutrients before they are
permanently destroyed by
heavy metals, drug residues
and persistent chemicals …

29. For the greater picture …
• Enclosed Long-Term Com-
posting is our best bet to break
a destructive cycle started by
the effort to get the queens
waste out of Windsor castle.
• Thomas Crapper designed the
first successful flush toilet. It
unfortunately set the norm for
the whole world.
• Now we no longer need to use
water to move toilet waste. We
can safely and easily process it
on site

30. Installation examples
• Misquamicut State
Beach, Rhode Island
• 2,000,000 visitors
per season

31. Installation examples
The bi-annual BOOM
festival in Portugal
20,000 visitors for
10 days using 160
CompostEra toilets
built on site.

32. Markham Fair
Largest Agricultural
Fair in North
America
80,000 visitors/day
Site-built system
60 Clivus USA toilets

33. Waway State Park, N.J., USA
State Beach in New
Jersey, USA

34. Salisbury Beach, Mass. USA
3 Public rest rooms
along a 2 mile beach
stretch

35. Army corps of engineers, USA
For many of their
installation in
remote locations,
forts and rifle
ranges.

36. Refugee camps in Congo
• Project under con-
struction with
onsite pre-fab
buildings.
• Toilets and grey-
water systems to
be integrated into
each building site.

37. Girl Scouts headquarter
Edith Macy camp,
Pennsylvania, USA

38. Lake Tahoe, California, USA
Ski Homewood,
resort

39. Stockholm, Sweden
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Local beach at
Trinntorp in the
Stockholm archipelago

40. Highway E6, Sweden
Long Term Composting design
by C. Lindstrom
www.susedalen.com

41. Long-Term Composting
Let’s make this the
technology of the
future: Non-polluting,
odor-free, silent, low
energy consumption,
and generating the best
fertilizer there is for
agriculture …

42. Public reaction to a new idea
The reception of new ideas that break with old
habits, is said to go through 3 stages:
1. The new idea is met with ridicule
2. Then it meets with violent opposition
3. Finally, the people first opposing it will say
that they actually thought that way all along …

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