Terra Preta Sanitation full reuse in sanitaton and bio-waste-management

1. Terra Preta Sanitationfull reuse in sanitaton andbio-waste-management Learning from successful ancient cultures… Prof. Dr. Ralf Otterpohl

2. Initial remark on Public Health • Parasites (Salt! removal of most parasites with increased uptake of pure NaCl salt over 6 weeks, combne with Vitamin C like fresh fruitalso traditional knowledge) • Flue (bird, swine, what is next?)why did this normal flue lieke swine flu become a WHO pandemy? Keep Vitamin D up! All flue can be treated with high amounts of vitamin D or A, check levels • A really dangerous could come…(who will belive WHO then? see above) • Keep the immune system strong: zink!(trace element, „ammunition of the immune system“, often too low)

3. Initial remark on Public Health Selling bottled water for 30 40 0r 50 cents per litre to the poorest people in the world… … is brutal misuse of power, killing babies and small children(can those who run this sleep well at night?) A price of 5 cents for water in a bag is possible

4. The 3 dimensions of Innovation Concept Innovation Formal Innovation Technical Innovation Source: Prof. G. Teodorescu, Stuttgart

5. Greywater 25.000 -100.000 Urine ~ 500 Feaces~ 50(option: add biowaste) ~ 87 % ~ 10 % ~ 3 % ~ 10 % ~50 % ~ 40 % ~ 12 % ~ 34 % ~ 54 % ~ 12 % ~ 41 % ~ 47 % Flushwatercan be saved6.000 - 25.000 Volumel/(P*year) Yearly Loadskg/(P*year) N ~ 4-5 P ~ 0,75 K ~ 1,8 COD ~ 30 Treatment Biogas-PlantComposting S, Ca, Mg and traceelements Treatment Reuse / Water Cycle Fertiliser Soil-Conditioner Geigy, Wiss. Tabellen, Basel 1981, Vol. 1, LARSEN and GUJER 1996, FITSCHEN and HAHN 1998

6. Desiccation toilet ++ Desiccation for hot climates Low/Non-diluting toilets are the key for new sanitation concepts

7. The 3 main Development lines • Blackwater and integrated systems design • Dry sanitation / Low Cost solutions • Urine-Diversion with flush sanitation

8. Here: Dry sanitation and a pathway for the furture: • Urine diverting dry toilets have been a major step forward (first from Sweden) • Over 1 Million installations, fast growing • Many different toilets have been developed, good but not excellent • Treatment pathway for faeces and urine needs to be improved

9. Urine Diverting Dry Sanitation: Developed from Sweden ROSA, EU 6th FP

10. Neue Schultoilette, Ukraine (TUHH/WECF) NGO WECF Women in Europe and TUHH

11. Major drawbacks in modern dry sanitation: • Urban, peri-urban areas are still difficult to be served • Multi storey houses not well solved • Ventilation is not an option for large scale, otherwise the whole region will smell bad • An ancient system offers new perspectives: Terra Preta Sanitationas evaluated by Dr. haiko Pieplow, Germany

12. Bio-Systems Design: • If there is one problem, look for other problems and solve them together • Waste of one system is food for others • Solutions are searched until no waste is remaining • No Waste equals Zero Emissions • Multiple added value according to Gunter Pauli, ZERI

13. Waterless Soil production (Urban) gardening If there is one problem, look for other problems and solve them together: Problem:Lack of efficient low cost sanitation Other Problems: Water scarcityWeak soils, erosion, depletionMissing food securityLack of incomeToo little jobs Jobs with the systems, greywater in gardening, black soil makes water, health

14. Soil degradation is stupid, future generations will need land, too… Poor soil can become highly fertile withclever management of biowaste and sanitation

15. The samesoil:highly fertileand carbon rich over manygenerationslong ago with- lactofermentedvermicompostedbiowaste andfaecal matter- 10% charcoalTerra Preta Naturally verypoor tropicalsoildegrades verysoon withlack of organicmatter Poor soil can become highly fertile withclever management of biowaste and sanitation from: Günther F. (2007). Carbon sequestration for everybody

16. Terra Preta: • 2000 – 7000 years old • around 10 % of the Amazon Region - 16. century millions of people, today 350.000 • up to 20 meters deep, partly hills • fertile without adding fertilizer • multiple yield • Composition: around 10 % ground charcoal, processed biowaste and feacal matter (lactofermentation and vermicomposting),bones and broken earthware Glaser, B. (2007). Prehistorically modified soils of central Amazonia: a model for sustainable agriculture in the twenty-first century,Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 362: pp 187–196

17. from: Günther F. (2007). Carbon sequestration for everybody

18. GEO, March 2009

19. Historic Amazon: Forest Argriculture in three layers GEO 3/2009

20. An ancient pathway for today:TERRA PRETA(black soil) Production of super-fertile soils, discovered in the Amazon from ancient cultures, still highly fertile today Composed of biowaste, feacal matter, bones and charcoal Production through lactofermentation (start e.g. by EM or Sauerkraut-liquid) followed by vermicomposting

21. Four design options forTerra Preta Sanitation: • Siple bucket systems with separate urine collection • Adapted urine diverted dry toilet • 1st Class urine diverting dry toilet(to be developed) • If the flush is needed: urine diverting flush toilet, collect solids in an lacto-acid sieving unit Terra Preta Sanitation was mainly inspired by Dr. Haiko Pieplow, Ministry of the Environment, Germany

22. NO-COST-Sanitation can be highly efficient and feasible with some change of habits 1.) Teach users of pit-toilets to divert urine in any way, after learning about fertilising value many people with some space will do this very dense population: urine collection and usage should be organised then no urine, no water into pit, add some charcoal and lacto-acid-bacteria (like in lacto-sauerkraut, pickled foods)2.) Same procedure, but instead of ‚normal‘ pit do 2 alternate shallow pit, put worms into idle pit3.) Use simple bucket system with a lid that closes air-thight otherwise like above

23. First step: Keep Urine separate opt 1.) to 3.) Pippinette The most simple approach, personal collector,female / male version Norway

24. Urine collection,male version like in hospitals

25. Second step: Feacal matter collection opt. 3.) Dry toilet shop, Hamburg:www.bergerbiotechnik.deTerra preta / EM-Shop:www.triaterra.de Example: Mobile-toilet „toa-standard“with a closing lid for the bucketafter usage: cover with ½ cup of a mixture of2,5 kg ground charcoal, 1 kg dolomite-lime, 1:100 EM Aor leachate of lacto-acid-fermented sauerkraut (pickled), some stone-dust operation ok when smell is ok leave lactofermenting for minimum 3 weeks to some month, then vermicomposting in aerobic composter, Process is simple and robust,

26. Separett Villa, Sweden A good starting pointfor a luxury version Cover lid Cild seat Terra preata toilets need to close the bucket air-tight after usage,no ventilation needed

27. (EcoSan Res/ A. Rosemarin 2005)

28. Breakthrough in solids treatment at TUHH(BMBF / IPSWaT)

29. Integrated urban bio-systems

30. Win-Win-Win-Situation • Sanitaiton makes soil • Soil makes fuel and food • Watering with underground pipes is greywater treatment • Operation and gardening creates local jobs • Better health, less violence through good nutrition • House design follows requirements, beautiful homes, good climate

31. Zentrale der Commerzbank, Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, 1994-1997"Wie kann man Arbeit und Natur in den Grenzen eines Bürogebäudes miteinander in Einklang bringen?" fragt Foster. http://www.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/powerhouse/db/248,id_21,s_Papers.fb15

32. Reuse through productive bamboo systemslocal regenerative energy, cost recovery throughcarbon trading and charcoal around 10m²/Person,feed only once a day, distribute well www.tuhh.de/aww PHYTOREM,France

35. Waterless Urinal(Keramag) Sorting-Toilet(Gustavsberg, Sweden)

36. Wasserfreie Urinsammlung ist inzwischen in Urinalen relativ problemlos möglich (Fa. Keramag)

37. Rottebehälter /Pre-composting tanc2 filterbags usedfor 6 month alternatelythen vermicompostingwith biowaste andslice-shred wood (optional) Lacto-acid bacteriaare added From Dr. Haiko Pieplow, Ministry of the Environment, Germany

38. Empty bags all 6 month(3-month intervals or even 1 month can be tested) • Compost bag contents with vermi-composting, optional addition of biowaste and slice-cut-woodchipLimited amounts of urine can be added according ot C:N ratio From Dr. Haiko Pieplow, Ministry of the Environment, Germany

39. Conclusions • The pathways for modern dry sanitation where found in ancient civilisations • A very simple model can serve people who care for virtually no costs • Luxury dry toilet models for littel money are feasible • Added value trough less water consumption, fertile soil, local gardening options

40. Thank you for your effortstowards a better future! and for listening… further info on www.tuhh.de/awwIWA SG www.ecosan.org

41. Old Amazonian cultures • All they left was highly fertile soil and beautiful earthware • They could produce food with a very low footprint • 3-storey agriculture (trees, scrub, ground) • They gave us a key element for the future of our societies:urban and peri-urban agriculture can be combined with biowaste utilisation and sanitation