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all go into the pit. After each use, a cup of the excavated soil should be added to help to control smell and flies. When the pit is nearly full, the outhouse and slab are moved to a newly dug pit and the old pit is covered with some of the earth from the new pit and left to compost. A fruit tree or
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If the pit is dug by hand it must have a diameter of at least 0.9 meters (2 ft 11 in) to accommodate effective digging. The floor should be at least 20 centimeters (7.9 in) wider than the pit, to allow for its stability. If the floor is round and unattached to the outhouse, it can be
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The defecation pit may be circular or square and this may depend on the slab and superstructure. A circular pit is less likely to collapse. The pit of the arborloo is shallow (between 1 and 1.5 meters (3 ft 3 in and 4 ft 11 in) deep).
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A roof is optional, especially if the floor is made such that rain runoff does not flow into the pit. The advantages of not making a roof include: more light, better ventilation, automatic rinsing with the rain,
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The arborloo works by temporarily putting the slab and superstructure above a shallow pit while it fills. Feces, urine, paper, leaves, other materials for wiping, and potentially
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transmission, and do not have to be processed or manipulated by anyone. Instead, fruits on trees are grown, fertilised by human excreta.
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Toilets that make compost: Low-cost, sanitary toilets that produce valuable compost for crops in an African context
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covering the drop hole of an Arborloo in Malawi. The slab can be rolled from one location to the next.
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other useful vegetation is planted in the old pit, preferably during the rainy season.
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Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production. 35p
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Feces are safely stored and converted in the soil, avoiding
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or other strong floor; a superstructure (toilet house or
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Introduction to Low Cost Sanitation Latrine Construction
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A banana plant growing vigorously on an ArborLoo pit.
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Index



Ekwendeni
Malawi
composting toilet
feces
fruit tree
fertile
soil
pit latrine
concrete
ferrocement
outhouse
water table
contaminate
groundwater
anal wash water
disease
dry toilet
developing countries

squat slab
disinfection via solar ultraviolet radiation
Ecological sanitation
Reuse of excreta
Treebog
Urine-diverting dry toilet
Waterless urinal

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