Scaling Non-Sewered Sanitation Services

In Kenya, 95% of fecal sludge is disposed into the environment without treatment. The reason for this is quite simple: municipalities are unable to pay to treat human waste because they lack cost-effective options. To solve this problem, we work with partners (local governments and refugee camps) to implement and operate waste processing factories. These factories intake fecal sludge and biomass residues to produce charcoal briquettes, that outperform traditional charcoal and save 88 trees per ton of product sold. By treating waste as a resource we are able to be one of the most cost-effective service providers for processing fecal sludge. Most importantly, by ensuring that 100% of fecal sludge is safely managed in a community there is the potential to reduce diarrheal disease by 40%. Through GCC’s support we will showcase to the sanitation sector how waste treatment plant can be turned into a resource factory.