Transcript How to Make, Use, and Reuse an Arborloo

How to Make, Use, and Reuse
an Arborloo
Step 1: Make the Concrete Slab
• Create 1 m Diameter ring of
bricks and line with plastic and
place brick/bucket in center.
• Pour in 6:1 mixture of clean river
sand and cement
• Insert four reinforcing wires and
cover with cement/sand mix
• Remove center piece and smooth
edges
• Cover with plastic sheet
• Slab must be kept wet and
covered for 10 days
Step 2: Make the Ring Beam
• Make an 80 cm inner diameter
ring of farm bricks
• Add anthill mortar (anthill soil
and water) between and above
the bricks using a trowel
• Add a second layer of bricks and
anthill mortar
• Ring Beams can also be made
from a 6:1 mixture of clean river
sand and cement and reinforcing
wire
Step 3: Installation
• Dig a pit 1-1.5 m deep within the
ring beam
• Use excess soil to pack the inside
of pit and around ring beam
• Pour a large sack of dried leaves
into the pit
• Adhere concrete slab to ring
beam with anthill mortar or 20:1
mixture of river sand and cement
Step 4: Build the Superstructure
• Use local materials such as poles
or grass to construct a toilet
house with a roof
• This structure not only provides
privacy, but prevents rainwater
from getting into the toilet that
can attract flies and mosquitoes
Step 5: Use
• Add one cup of soil and ash to the
pit after every bowel movement.
This is not required for urination
• Leaves should be added at
regular intervals to assist the
composting process
• Food scraps can also be added.
Never put trash such as plastic or
rags in the pit!
• When the pit is nearly full, it is
time to move the Arborloo!
Step 6: Relocate the Arborloo
• Remove toilet house, concrete slab, and break apart ring beam
• Cover the pit with a compacted layer of soil at least 150 mm thick
• Reuse toilet house, concrete slab, and bricks from ring beam to
construct a new Arborloo
• Allow 6-12 months for composting process
Step 7: Results
• After the waste has been
composted, fruit tree seeds or off
shoots can be planted
• Mulberry, guava, mango, paw
paw and banana are the best
trees to plant
Plants grown in regular soil vs. an
Alterna Fossa soil mixture (if you look at
the dates on the plants, the smaller
plant was actually planted one month
earlier!)